In conclusion, M. Sazanof expressed the hope that the close union of all Russians around the throne, which had been manifested since the beginning of the war, would remain unchanged until the completion of the great national task. Speakers of the Progressist, Octobrist, and Nationalist Centre Parties agreed that a premature peace would be a crime against their country and humanity, and that therefore Russia was prepared to make every sacrifice so that Germany might be definitely crushed. At the end of the sitting the following resolution was unanimously adopted: _The Duma, saluting the glorious exploits of our soldiers, sends to the Russian Army and Navy a cordial greeting and to our allies an expression of sincere esteem and sympathy. It expresses its firm conviction that the great national and liberating objects of the present war will be achieved, and declares the inflexible determination of the Russian Nation to carry on the war until conditions shall have been imposed on the enemy assuring the peace of Europe and the restoration of right and justice_. TO THE VICTORS BELONG THE SPOILS! By MADELEINE LUCETTE RYLEY. [From King Albert's Book.] The Victor true is he who conquers fear, Who knows no time save now--no place but here. Who counts no cost--who only plays the game. To him shall go the prize--Immortal Fame! To the illustrious ruler and his gallant little nation, whose heroism and bravery are surely unparalleled in the whole of our world's history, I bow my head in respectful homage. Lessons of the War to March Ninth By Charles W. Eliot President Emeritus of Harvard University. CAMBRIDGE, Mass., March 9, 1915. _To the Editor of The New York Times:_ The observant world has now had ample opportunity to establish certain conclusions about the new kind of war and its availability as means of adjusting satisfactorily international relations; and it seems desirable in the interest of durable peace in Europe that those conclusions should be accurately stated and kept in public view. In the first place, the destructiveness of war waged on the scale and with the intensity which conscript armies, the new means of transportation and communication, the new artillery, the aeroplanes, the high explosives, and the continuity of the fighting on battle fronts of unexampled length, by night as well as by day, and in stormy and wintry as well as moderate weather, make possible, has proved to be beyond all power of computation, and could not have been imagined in advance. Never before has there been any approach to the vast killing and crippling of men, the destruction of all sorts of man's structures--buildings, bridges, viaducts, vessels, and docks--and the physical ruin of countless women and children. On the seas vessels and cargoes are sunk, instead of being carried into port as formerly.