WASHINGTON'S BIRTHDAY OBSERVED

The twenty-second of February was fittingly observed by an address in Webster Hall by Mr. Edwin D. Mead of Boston on "The United States and the United World." Mr. Mead has long been prominent in the work to secure worldwide recognition of the principles of international arbitration. He is now secretary of the "World Peace Foundation" established by Mr. Edwin Ginn with a gift of $1,000,000. In his address Mr. Mead presented in forceful style his plea for disarmament and arbitration and was able to show how Washington, Franklin, and Jefferson had dreamed o.f this and hoped for it over one hundred years ago. As a reason why Dartmouth should be a leader in this movement he cited a Dartmouth Peace Society which was one of the strongest organizations of its kind in the college world of the early nineteenth century. He closed with a summary of the progress made up to the present toward this ideal and an appeal to the present generation of students who would soon be the leaders in this work.