COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY AND HER SONS IN FRANCE. [To THE EDITOR
OF Tut EPOLTATCM.'1 Sut,—You will be interested to see a copy of the admirable Christmas greeting which has gone on behalf of Columbia University to those Columbia men, some two thousand in number. who are known to be in the military or naval service of the United States, many of them already in France—I am, Sir, be.,
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" Columbia University, in the City of New York. President's Room.
To UCH COLUMBIA MAX IX SERVICE,—
At this Christmas season whew the good cheer and, good will that should mark it are so sadly absent from the lives and hearts of millions of human beings, Alma Mater has a spatial word of greeting and encouragement for those of her brave and stalwart sons who have given themselves to the service of the nation, even though their lives be the sacrifice. No contest in which you could possibly be engaged can equal this one in moral significance. Everything which distinguishes right from wrong in public con- duct, everything which marks off principle from expediency in national life, everything which draws a line between liberty and despotism, everything which removes human opportunity from the grasping hand of cruel privilege, waits for its safety, and perhaps for its very existence, upon your success and that of the noble men of allied nations who are fighting by your side on land and sea.
Keep a stout heart, no matter how long the waiting, how severe the trials, or how- near by the danger. Life will not be worth living for any of ue unless you win this war. Be assured that you are to win, for the whole moral and patriotic force of America is behind you. Columbia, intensely proud of her share in this struggle and of her notable contribution of men and service to its successful conduct, Benda you. this word of good cheer and encouragement. When this war shall have been righteously won there will be pence on earth for all men of good will.
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