Word: britisher
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Seventy names will be inscribed on the Roll tomorrow in chronological order, beginning with that of C. Williamson '05, who was killed in Belgium on November 12, 1917, while fighting in the British Army, and ending with K. P. Culbert '17, whose death was reported two days ago in the CRIMSON. The Roll itself consists of a large dark-wood panel with five columns in which to place the names. Above the columns are inscribed these lines from James Russell Lowell's poem on the death of Robert Gould Shaw...
...George Adam Smith, D.D., LL.D., Litt.D., Principal and Vice-Chancellor of Aberdeen University, Scotland, will conduct morning prayers in Appleton Chapel tomorrow morning at 11 o'clock. Dr. Smith, who was for some time a chaplain on active service with the British Expeditionary Forces in France, has been sent to this country under the auspices of the National Committee on Churches and the Moral Aims of the War, with the official sanction of the Department of Public Information of the British Foreign Office...
...first "Plattsburg" training and received their commissions, it has been given them chiefly in conjunction with the manifold duties of their regular commands. They have remained responsible for carrying out the drill and instruction of the men in their companies. The result has been that advanced courses under the British and French officers could not be pursued with the singleness of purpose, the freshness of mental and physical effort, necessary to the task. The Americans were already too absorbed with their own work as teachers to be qualified also as good pupils. Moreover, the advanced schools, under these conditions, could...
...light of impartial judgment, Irish conscription is pre-eminently fair. Depleted English and Irish battalions have been recruited almost entirely through the British draft. It is time that Ireland should, do her share. This war is her war in as great a degree as it is England's. Irish leaders supported the original declaration of hostilities and have since maintained the belief that Ireland is directly and irrevocably concerned. The volunteer system has not brought the desired results. Fair play now demands conscription...
...introduction of home rule. Expediency, it is asserted, demands some compensation for the Irish sacrifice. There are considerations, however, which tend to deny the efficacy of such a step. To establish home rule means to alienate the sympathies of Ulster and to augment internal dissension within Ireland itself. The British have maintained their reputation as opportunists, but they have sacrificed principle without attaining the hoped-for result...