"ONLY WAY TO GET PEACE IS TO WIN THE WAR"-BECK

"The only way to get peace is to win the war," declared James M. Beck, former assistant attorney-general under Roosevelt, before an audience of 2,500 college men on Saturday night in the Boston Opera House. "Unless the Prussian is beaten and knows that he is beaten, all the dead will have died in vain, for even if a treaty or peace could be secured at this time that would be wholly favorable to the Allies, but which left the Hohenzollern on his throne, as soon as Germany had recuperated its strength, as Prussia did under Frederick the Great, the life and death struggle between liberalism and slavery would be renewed.

"If we are to have a liberal civilization, there is no room for the Hohenzollern in it. With him or his brood on the throne the rule of reason will cease in international affairs and the only right will be that of the powers of chemistry.

"I verily believe that it would be better for civilization to end in the Ragnarok, or 'twilight of the gods,' like ancient Valhalla, than for it to continue 'half slave and half free' with a Prussian Kaiser as the dominating influence."

Forty-nine colleges were represented at the Rally, which this year supplants the majority of dinners and reunions held in Boston, and 11 college presidents were present on the platform. The list of colleges included: Amherst, Assumption, Bates, Boston College, Boston University, Bowdoin, Brown, Chicago, Colby, Colgate, Cornell, De Pauw, Georgetown, Hamilton, Harvard, Haverford, Holy Cross, Johns Hopkins, Illinois, Lafayette, Lehigh, Maine, M. A. C., M. I. T., Michigan, Middlebury, Minnesota, N. H. State, Norwich, Oberlin, Ohio State, Pennsylvania, Princeton, Purdue, Rochester, Syracuse, Trinity, Tufts, Vermont, Wesleyan, Western Reserve, Williams, Worcester Tech., Union, Yale.