1878*

The Necrology column carries notice of Sully's departure. He had been so separated from us for some time past that his death seems rather to bring him nearer than to remove him farther. His son writes that death was due to tired heart muscles, and he passed peacefully as in quiet sleep.

.... We are now six, all on the last half of our ninth decade, and Tarbell, lively as any of us, is on the last year of his. Few as we are, we outnumber '77 and '79 combined, and the '70's will soon be off the College map We couldn't boost our contribution to the Alumni Fund as the younger classes did, but with the help of our Coeds, we held our own pretty well, and we rejoice with all the rest in the huge success of the campaign Parkinson is out with a letter in the August Advance, proposing that the Conference of Catholics, Protestants, and Jews invite the Mohammedans to join in their consultations seeking common ground on the way to civilization. Islam will have a voice in shaping the new world order to which we look forward, and since the present conflict tends more and more to an issue between believers in an overruling Power That Makes for Righteousness and the powers that repudiate all moral order, it is time for believers to get together. The Moslems distrust, with good reason, all political approach, but may they not be more open to a spiritual approach that offers neither promises nor demands, only invites to mutual understanding? .... We are looking with wonder, almost awe, upon the old College turned half Navy, and the other half hardly civilian, and all out for Victory.

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