Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1921-06-03
j. 1. \. ENDS
ITS Centennial
DIR. Hugh Hampton Young
Delivers Adress at
Banquet
SCOUTS WAR TALK
Calls on English Speaking People to
Assure World Peacefully Gi
Universities.

Charlottesville, Va, June 3--Ihe
formal celebration of the centennial
of the University of Virginia came
to an end iast night with a banquet
in the historic rotunda. John Stew
ard Bryan, rector of he university
presided and addresses were deliver
cd by DR.. Woodourn Chase, presl-
dent of the University Of North Car
! DINA: Thomas Watt Gregory, for
mer Attorney General OF the limited
States; DR.. Hugh Hampton Young
Of Baltimore, president of The Gen
eral Alumni Association of the uni
vcrsity, and Gabriel Hanotaux, conf
mander of the French Legion If
Honor.
In his address DR.. Chase said that.
it was the task of the universities Of.
the S"uth ''to guide, focus to inter
nret t. themselves and to the world
this great forward, upward move
ment of democracy.
Featuring Yesterdays part of the
centennial exercises We're addresses
by Sir Auckland Geides. British
ambassador to the United States,
ard Dr. John Bassett Moore, Ham
i!ton Fish professor of international
law in Columbia University.
Ambassador Geddes, speaking in
lcpd clear voice that could be
heard BY al Of the thousands who
packed the large anlphithcatre, en-
phasized the inrpossibility of war be-
tween England and the United
States, and said he wished to see
"the English-spcalling people Of the
world banded together in leadership
Of all the nations to The era of world
peace"
After describing war as futile and
unnecessary, he said t,,at it was the
duty Of every university to give its
students true understanding Of the
cost Of war in order to stave off fu-
ture conflicts.
II have noticed that when |, as
British Ambassador, speak Of peace
I am usually supposed by some to
dread the immediate or early out
break Of war between your nation
and mine," he declared.
"M2y ! say that I am not so silly?
! .rhe continrGnce Indefinitely into the
future of peace between our people
is so obvious a NECESSITY of our ma
t.onal lives that | do not dream Of
the contingency Of its rupture. What
] am concerned WITH is something
that seems to me far greater ~and
! nnbler. ! wish to see the English
\ speaking people of the world banded
together in leadership Of all the
i natioIs to the era OF world peace.
ard as first step t the era in
which the wars, which even now we
can recognize as futile and unneces-
aary, are done with forever"
~ believe most profoundly that it
is the duty of every university to
plant in the minds of It's intellectual
children tire understanding Of
the cost of war, 50 mat never light
heartcdly will they le: their nation
turn to the dread artitrament CT
arms. l have acknowledged that in
the world as it is, the choice for a
nation may be io fight or die, but !
believe that now is the time for the
English-speaking people, with their
great and peculiar advantages. to
resolve that never again will they
permit this fair world TO be devas-
tated by unnecessary war, if by
standing firmly together they can
prevent it.
DR.. Moore. in his address, de.
plored tie passionate excitement
resulting from the war. which, ht
said. caused wholesale attacks upor
persons cf a particular faith 0,
creed. There is tendency, he dc
, c!ared, to regard differences of opiI
: ion as menace ard something II
2 be suppressed.
, "Today our eyes an ears are co,