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...Verein at a special meeting of the executive committee has elected Captain Paul Koenig of the German super-submarine "Deutschland," an honorary member of the club. A committee will be appointed to go to New London to present the Captain with a medal and a shingle signifying his membership. Among the honorary members of the Verein are included Count von Bernstorff, Dr. Carl Muck and all the exchange professors from Germany...
...ambulance men, it is impossible to speak of the latter except in superlatives. The long list of citations to the order of the day at the back of the book, and the simple official statements of the acts that won them, give us the right to place these men among the heroes...
...present war is not exactly a holy war. For every man who goes in it that the civilization of the world should be saved, there are a score who go in because they like the sound of imperialism, or because they hate another nation, or because they were drafted. Among those who go in for the finer motives and voluntarily lay down their lives for reasons that are the farthest removed from all material considerations, Americans, of "material" America, are not without their glory...
This coin is a copper cent, and is known among collectors as one of the "Fugio" coins. It was one of the earliest coins under the authority of the United States, being coined in the city of New York in 1787, and struck by means of a drop piece. It is also known as the "Franklin," "Sun-Dial" and "Mind Your Business" cent...
...fooled. Probably it is the German-Americans who are being fooled, for Mr. Hughes is, after all, an American, and cannot be much in-sympathy with the things for which Prussia stands. He would probably have dealt with Germany about as Mr. Wilson did. It is not the fashion among nations to go to war until certain formalities have been complied with. In the month of August, 1914, the nations of Europe exchanged a good many more notes than Mr. Wilson has exchanged with Germany before they took up arms. What Mr. Hughes would have done, however, is only...