. The Varsity war supplement 1917. enace By Sidney Childs, IN the present war, the power of our universities to renderaid to the State has been subjected to the most crucialtest, and none of our public institutions have emergedmore gloriously from the great ordeal. The very objectsfor which they existed were to foster and develop the arts ofpeace, and yet when war came the university life of Britainresponded to the call with vigorous and useful service. Ontheir part there has never been any misapprehension of thegreat issues at stake, but a grim determination to bring theconflict to a vic
. The Varsity war supplement 1917. enace By Sidney Childs, IN the present war, the power of our universities to renderaid to the State has been subjected to the most crucialtest, and none of our public institutions have emergedmore gloriously from the great ordeal. The very objectsfor which they existed were to foster and develop the arts ofpeace, and yet when war came the university life of Britainresponded to the call with vigorous and useful service. Ontheir part there has never been any misapprehension of thegreat issues at stake, but a grim determination to bring theconflict to a victorious close. Many of the university institutions of Britain were builtin days long past to the memory of men who have given theirlives for the unity of the nation and the freedom of man, andthose ancestors, whose faces look down from many a wall andstoried window in our ancient colleges, have no reason to beashamed of the sons fostered and brought up within those universities of Britain, old and new alike, have met the. Oxford, $alliol College and Jfiartyrs Jtfem
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