Word: ambassadors
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Archbishop, who is the most Reverend Cosmo Gordon Lang, D.D., D.C.L., LL.D., D.L.H., arrived in New York City on last Friday in response to the invitation of the war commission of the Protestant Episcopal Church in this country, seconded by Ambassador Page, and he will remain for a visit of seven weeks. He is to preach in most of the large Eastern cities and will visit a few of the older universities. His principal mission in the United States is to emphasize the importance which the help of America has been to the Allied cause and to appeal to Americans...
...additions have been made to the staff of military instructors at Princeton University. Word has been received by President Hibben from French Ambassador Jusserand that Lieutenant Defourmestraux of the French Army will be detailed to the Princeton Battalion, as an instructor, beginning his duties the first week of the second term. In addition, a Canadian officer and a United States Army sergeant of the Ordnance Department have been ordered to report for service with the university corps, and they, in conjunction with the French lieutenant, will assist in the training of the student soldiers...
...board of trustees of the University of Pennsylvania has unanimously adopted a resolution striking the names of Emperor William of Germany and Count von Bernstorff, former German ambassador to the United States, from the university list of those holding honorary degrees...
...Bacon, who succeeded Elihu Root as Secretary of State under President Roosevelt, and later served as ambassador to France, was elected a member of the Corporation in 1912. At the outbreak of the war he volunteered his services to the Government for the duration of the war and is now in France as a member of General Pershing's staff, holding the rank of major. The other members of the Corporation are President Lowell, Treasurer C. F. Adams '88, Dr. H. P. Walcott '58, Major H. L. Higginson '55, T. N. Perkins '91 and Bishop W. Lawrence...
...other hand, the Austrians have made war on the United States in two definite and unforgivable ways: Austrian submarines have sunk American ships and taken the lives of Americans in the Mediterranean; and the Austrian ambassador, Dumba, and many of his subordinates, plotted against the peace, security and neutrality of the United States--right here on our own shores. There are hundreds of thousands of Austro-American citizens in the United States, who earn their living by honest work, and desire no trouble with anybody; most of them probably are Slavs and Hungarians who have no reason to love...