The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-09-27
LORD BRYCE PREDICTS
SUCCESS FOR FUNl

Cambridge. Mass. Sept. 24.-Payi.s
high tribute 10 the work OF An,Srtcan
! university men in the great war, i lev
ter received here today by Preside a
Emeritus Charles W. Eliot OF Har-
Varo, from Lord Bryce, former Brit.
ish ambassador to the United s.atas
! predicts a generous response to ira
appear being made TO the cnunYr,. fnr
endowing Harvard university with !
! permanent fund Of s1525aQon
Depicting the war effort OF the Eng
/ hsh universities where tspracticaiip
' every man between eighteen ana fcr,v-
! 1ve who was physically fit offered
| himself for military service. ara
"here' during the war only abcus
/ one-fenth or even less of the under
graduates ana Of the younger teachers
were left TO learn and teach" Lord
| Bryce declares that the British stu
dents have made brilliant records.
/ Thousands of them he saws fall Is
action and their loss the loss .snk
cially of those who gave promise ,f
splendid achievement in tho 1e,de ~
learning and of science. has been
/ national calamity that Il will taxa
many years to repair And he goes
on 70 say that there has never been
| time when the universities, each ana
all OF them, were so fully id@ntit.ed
with a great natl III II e1ort and s,oro
| a nohler part in H.
what has proved true OF the Brit.
| ish universities !s no less true Of ina
universities of America. declares Lord
| Bryce, All that we have heard hers
about their activities he says "shows
| that they TOO. have been foremoA}
| IN all the endeavors your people havoI
been making during the two years a. !
Americas participation In the world
struggle for justice and freedom IN
| deed, not few II your best univers,tv
men had begun {, work for the good
! cause even before 1911 ,ennenaher
fthat some time previously met I'M
London a fully equipped detachm@n.|
~ surgeons AMI physicians, nainlvI
drawn from the Harvard MEDICAL
school, on their way to France to set |
up hospitals for the wounded under
voluntary surgical help II was one
! Of the Harvard oversees my dearI
, friend Robert Bacon, now. also. lost "a |
| us who organized one of the Asst
large military hospitals la France.
which for lie completeness and en-
cheney became model. We rejciced
TO welcome from time 70 time IN Lon-I
don. during the st eighteen months.
and undergraduates from your uns-|
INersities all the way from Maine ioI
! California. who impressed us So adj
! ,'itf an3e s'et.naens of American ma.a>
!, hood personal knowledge Of your until
versities. II was real pleasure to talk
70 these Young men and learn from
each of them how his university wasl
thriving. and note how deep was hisl
attachment to IT, and what q patriotfc
spirit IL had fostered
The universities OF the United
states nave in some WAYS been n.ore1
| prominent in the public life OF YOUR
country man ours have been in tho
pubic life Of Eng iand--and 1 have
siore than ohce venture6 TO trxrfssa
mere, and can repeat with a growing
/ conviction. my belief that there rms
been no fhctor more powerful for good
in the United States during the ,ast1
/ hstf century than have been yourl
universities
And. now what of the future n
| What are the universities OF Britain
and those Of America called anon -
! 90 Tot theSe two countries in thial
period of what is called reconstruct
non Here in Europe the revolu-
Hohary changes we see in the world
OF politics have been accompanied nv
changes almost revolutionary In the
world of thought Mems u,inda seem
70 De drifting from the old n1oorsn ~
prey to uncertain currents. IN thin
geHerai unsettlement and fiux OF cpin-s
'on tnere Is an urgent need for careful
ana exact thinking on the problemA
/ We have to face. Ecsryrh hing has IA
be reconsidered. High. trained m.
tehects are needed to give the clear
cut. penetrating scientific Find of
| thinking that will help us throu nj
these days Of confusion in which NJ
many admirable aspirations are varuA
er creamy and so many proposals for
destruction are made bv those who
nave nothing definite or &orkahie "a
suggest for replacing what II n de-
sired rightly o" wrongly. TO testrov.
S.hiiar Changes ALT ear to be passing
on thought in America. thourh. - Z
gather, to a less extent, for THINGS are
at present more stable in the new
world than in the old
NOW 1t Is the universities that seem
specially called upon to meet thie
emergency by giving US the trafnsN
thinkers we desire univernifv In
organized thought. organized Tor pran-
tical as we'll as for theoretic arm. -
In many an American city one 0nda
that the university graduates hesk
represent the organised public spifiE
and civil zeal OF the community, Uni-,
versities exist largely for the purpoeN
OF clarifying and testing not only
ideas but schemes looking to the,
moral and social welfare OF nanktnd.i
/ Whatever strengthens them ana ea.A
tends their influence benefits I na&ton1
They are Its intellectual hfe-bloodl
This IL nowhere better undesveool3
than In America. cannot doubt tha1
. generous xespones will So maAn u
the appeal which you tai M e "a
contemplated to make ON thelr 49,
half" MA
Lord Bryce, who dininxuished Aisns.
self during the war mainly ~ Nh
work az chairman for the connrnteatouj
which Investigated tho Beigian a4roc3-s
ties. has receited two honorary d.
grees from Harvard. the IL u. G.
1907 and the Lit D. In 1868.
BelSrade.-The wall known s'oootielsl
70 the chief transmitter q Cphu4 n;
the Balkans. In their nght arAln1l
this plague the American Red CroS
has established ''delousing usjlla
here that will aceommodsxe hundYG6r