Word: americans
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...whole," he continued, "the sentiment of England toward the American troops was only one of whole-souled praise. They overestimated, if anything, the German influence in America and entirely excused our slowness in entering the war on that ground; indeed they were surprised that we got in as well as we did. The pet joke of the Canadians was that they had to kill the Boche to keep the Americans from murdering...
...Varsity man or a member of a class or whatever team, receive moral and physical benefit from any game in which he may play in proportion as he is taught and inspired to play that game to the limit of his ability. Therein, I should say, we exemplify the American university spirit, or, to put it more broadly, the national spirit...
...draft for a League of Nations which was brought over here by Mr. Wilson on his hurried trip was hastily thrown together and so clumsily phrased that even he cannot interpret clearly what it means. Comparatively few American citizens have read the draft at all, and so far as the American public is concerned, aside from the debates in the Senate and some critical discussion in the press, there has been no attempt to make clear just what effect any one of the twenty-six articles will have either upon the future of the United States or upon the future...
...details for the resumption of the election of Rhodes scholars in the United States were announced last Tuesday evening by Prof. Frank Aydelotte of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, American Secretary to the Rhodes trustees. Qualifying examinations will no longer be required. His statement authorized by the trustees in London reads...
...Fogg Art Museum announces that on Tuesday afternoon it will open an exhibition of seventy original drawings. Examples have been gathered together of the English, American, German, French, Dutch, Flemish, Spanish, and Italian schools. No attempt has been made at historical completeness, the sole purpose being to bring together significant examples of draughtsman, ship, irrespective of time or place of production...