Muhlenberg College - Ciarla Yearbook (Allentown, PA)

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THE “CIARLA” STAFF AT WORK

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The Ciarla Staff Editor-in-Chief Luther A. Krouse Assistant Editor-in-Chief Lloyd M. Beilis Associate Editors Werner T. Jentsch Dalton F. Schwartz Frederick H. Worsinger Walter J. Smith Business Managers Stewart H. Nase Harold Romig Frank M. Brown Advertising Managers Mark A. Wetherhold Photographers Walter J. Smith Russell D. Snyder G. Charles Goering Arthur H. Getz L. Augustus Markley Paul W. Shankweiler W. Bruce Macintosh Artist Edwin G. Arner

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Muhlenberg and the War Professor John D. M. Brown IRECTLY war was declared by England in August, 1914, her public schools and colleges furnished the first volunteers to the colors. With Germany bombarding Antwerp, nothing could stop or stay that onward march of men moving from the cricket- fields of Eton and Harrow, from the quiet lawns of Oxford and Cambridge, to the training camps at Sandhurst and Woolwich, and thence to the front. Men who had meant their sons for other callings in life revoked their decision, and yielded to the call of the country. On the battlefields of France these student-soldiers, disheartened by no defeat, discouraged by no obstacle, appalled by no danger, fought fearlessly for freedom and for fatherland. Many a young subaltern, famous as an athlete in the school from which he came, plunged thru a deadly barrage or into the teeth of a withering machine-gun fire, and waving his men on, stormed a German trench at the cost of his own life. All honor to these brave fellows who went west. They left the well-loved playing-fields to ship by sea for They knew the misery of the soaking trench, And died (uncouthly most) in foreign lands For some idea but dimly understood Of an English city never built by hands, Which love of England prompted and made good. Likewise, when our country entered the war a year ago, to colleges and preparatory schools fell the honor of the largest enlistments. College men thruout the United States rallied to the colors. They were among the first defenders of democracy. With courage, with enthusiasm, with an exaltation and purity of purpose never equalled, with a devotion to country never ex- celled, they joined the armies of our great Republic. They counted not the cost. Their country needed them, and they gave their services. I well recall how our Muhlenberg men were among the first to go. As the days of early spring passed by, we missed this fellow or that fellow in his accustomed place in the schoolroom. And we added his name to our ever increasing Roll of Honor. They went willingly, and gladly we released them. Muhlenberg was proud to do her bit for her country and for the cause of democracy. We sent them East and West, North and South. In that first month of the war, Muhlenberg gave scores of her sons. 6