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...Azan, Commandant of the French Military Mission at the University, has been promoted to the rank of Colonel by the French War Department. Although the promotion was made some time ago, Colonel Azan was not informed of this fact until just before the dinner given for Captain Cordier at the Harvard Club of Boston on last Wednesday evening...
Arrangements for the Yale men to enter the regiment after the enlistments formally closed several weeks ago was made at a recent conference between President Hadley, President Lowell and the University military authorities. The Elis have been training throughout the spring under Captain Danforth, U. S. Army, devoting the greater part of their time to artillery drill. Although here they will be unable to directly continue work in that branch of the service which they intend eventually to follow, they will receive the infantry training which is essential for an artillery man, and they will also have the benefit...
...strange to many men that the President continues to mark a definite line between the German government and the German people, as though that powerful people were burdened like any group of serfs with a government which held them in close subjugation. Some months ago we could blithely believe that, and pity those seventy millions who were bound so harshly by Junkertum to the wheel of war. But the history of the world as man constitutes it shows that a like view is fallacious. No cabal of autocratic rulers could have forced a nation, either by lies or threats...
...Napoleon who had dreams of empire a century ago, or the French? Was it Attila who scourged God, or the Huns? That nation is a nation of exceeding fools which fights for conquest without knowing, the desire for conquest, nor the value of conquest. And no nation of exceeding fools was ever able to fight as has Germany. Or to fight at all, for that matter...
...foolish doubt is now dispelled. There were some who previously declared that the Administration is uncordial to college men. Of course such absurd prejudices have long ago disappeared; now the accusation of them has also disappeared...