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                            PRIZE ORATIONS
                                OF THE
                  INTERCOLLEGIATE PEACE ASSOCIATION


                      EDITED WITH AN INTRODUCTION
                                  BY
                        STEPHEN F. WESTON, PH.D.
                EXECUTIVE SECRETARY OF THE ASSOCIATION
         PROFESSOR OF ECONOMICS AND SOCIOLOGY, ANTIOCH COLLEGE
                         YELLOW SPRINGS, OHIO



                              FOREWORD BY
                           CHARLES F. THWING


                                BOSTON
                      THE WORLD PEACE FOUNDATION
                                 1914




                       THIS VOLUME IS DEDICATED
                                TO THE
                     MISSES MARY AND HELEN SEABURY
                     WHOSE INTEREST AND ASSISTANCE
                HAVE MADE POSSIBLE THE ORATIONS OF THE
                   INTERCOLLEGIATE PEACE ASSOCIATION




                               CONTENTS


                                                                  PAGE
  FOREWORD                                                         vii
    By CHARLES F. THWING, President of the Association

  THE INTERCOLLEGIATE PEACE ASSOCIATION                              1
    By STEPHEN F. WESTON, Executive Secretary of the Association

  THE CONFLICT OF WAR AND PEACE                                     25
    By PAUL SMITH, DePauw University, Indiana

  THE UNITED STATES AND UNIVERSAL PEACE                             35
    By GLENN PORTER WISHARD, Northwestern University, Illinois

  THE EVOLUTION OF WORLD PEACE                                      45
    By LEVI T. PENNINGTON, Earlham College, Indiana

  THE WASTE OF WAR--THE WEALTH OF PEACE                             55
    By ARTHUR FORAKER YOUNG, Western Reserve University, Ohio

  THE HOPE OF PEACE                                                 65
    By STANLEY H. HOWE, Albion College, Michigan

  THE ROOSEVELT THEORY OF WAR                                       73
    By PERCIVAL V. BLANSHARD, University of Michigan

  NATIONAL HONOR AND VITAL INTERESTS                                81
    By RUSSELL WEISMAN, Western Reserve University, Ohio

  THE EVOLUTION OF PATRIOTISM                                       91
    By PAUL B. BLANSHARD, University of Michigan

  CERTAIN PHASES OF THE PEACE MOVEMENT                             101
    By CALVERT MAGRUDER, St. John's College, Maryland

  THE ASSURANCE OF PEACE                                           111
    By VERNON M. WELSH, Knox College, Illinois

  EDUCATION FOR PEACE                                              121
    By FRANCIS J. LYONS, University of Texas

  NATIONAL HONOR AND PEACE                                         129
    By LOUIS BROIDO, University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

  THE NEW NATIONALISM AND THE PEACE MOVEMENT                       137
    By RALPH D. LUCAS, Knox College, Illinois

  MAN'S MORAL NATURE THE HOPE OF UNIVERSAL PEACE                   147
    By VICTOR MORRIS, University of Oregon

  THE TASK OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY                                157
    By HAROLD HUSTED, Ottawa University, Kansas

  THE PRESENT STATUS OF INTERNATIONAL ARBITRATION                  167
    By BRYANT SMITH, Guilford College, North Carolina




FOREWORD


These orations are selected from hundreds of similar addresses spoken
in recent years by hundreds of students in American colleges. I
believe it is not too bold to say that they represent the highest
level of undergraduate thinking and speaking. They are worthy
interpreters of the cause of peace, but they are, as well, noble
illustrations of the type of intellectual and moral culture of
American students. Whoever reads them will, I believe, become more
optimistic, not only over the early fulfillment of the dreams of peace
among nations, but also over the intellectual and ethical condition of
academic life.

For the simple truth is that