Word: britisher
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Oxford and Cambridge were completely wiped out in the very first days of the war," said Phillip Gibbs, the British war correspondent when interviewed by a CRIMSON reporter soon after his arrival in Boston yesterday. "When the storm burst we had only our small regular army of about seven divisions known as the "contemptible." Two hundred and fifty students from Cambridge joined this army as despatch riders, not waiting to receive commissions. The service these men rendered was huge. They were the only motorcycle despatch carriers and accomplished wonders in the retreat from Mons, riding straight into the unknown German...
...disorder and anarchy, the United States has most to gain by peace and security. Some senators and representatives of the United States and other public men argue that we must take care of ourselves. When the conditions of the world proved to be such that the British Empire has been absolutely unable to take care of itself alone, when the alert and courageous French nation was all but strangled, when Russia with a hundred and sixty million people breaks into fragments, what guarantee has the United States of America that it will be free to take care of itself...
Lieutenant-Colonel Hugh Cabot '94, commanding officer of the University Surgical Unit in France, will speak under the auspices of the St. Paul's Society in Peabody Hall, Phillips Brooks House, on March 5 at 7.45. The subject of the lecture is "The Causes for the British Retreat on the Somme in the Spring of 1918". All members of the University are invited to attend...
...great problems of reconstruction which will be engaging our attention for a long time after the war will be that of education. Already the European nations have started housecleaning their old establishments. Despite the severe tasks which have confronted them, the British have undertaken a remodelling of their school system, and out of a sorely depleted treasury have voted eighty millions to begin on. Our Congress will shortly be considering a bill which proposes to make a national problem of our public schools, which have hitherto been a state and local issue; according to the bill there shall...
...What a happy rallying event for British university men this will be, and doubly so for American students still in foreign service. Beyond that, the relationship between Britain and the United States would be strengthened, athletics as a whole would receive a stimulus, as also the Rhodes scholarships, and scholarships in general through a bringing together of British and American students for an interchange of ideas at a most auspicious event." Yale News...