Word: centrally
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...wearing Germany out by sheer destruction of numbers, that the final victory is to be won. Serious as the events of the immediate past have been, they afford no basis for despondency. When interpreted in this light, they act rather as a prelude to the ultimate defeat of the Central Powers...
With the launching of a great German offensive upon a fifty-mile front, active fighting in the West has again become a grim reality. The Central Powers, victorious at every other point, seem now to match their strength with the enemy in the hope of striking a decisive blow toward a favorable termination of the war. Yet the general military situation makes it very possible that the present movement is but a feint in the concealment of another motive...
...recipients are: Bernard Jacob Alpers '21, of Dorchester (Boston Latin School); Warren Davis Ball '21, of New Haven, Conn. (Springfield Central High School); Carl Arthur Benander '21, of Boston (Boston Latin School); Joseph Charles Bloom '21, of Dorchester (Boston Latin School); Robert Bulman Drummey '21, of South Boston (Boston Latin School); William Henry Dunphy '21, of Dorchester (Boston Latin School); Stanley Brady Ecker '21, of Chicago, Ill. (Hyde Park High School); Miles Hanson, Jr., Unc., of Roxbury (Texas State School of Mines); David Samuel Herman '21, of Passaic, N. J. (Passaic High School); Clarence Francis Mateyka '21, of Cleveland, Ohio...
...understand them. The events of July, 1914, were in great part the result of the previous thirty years intrigue in the Balkans. The events of March, 1918, are surely the same. Pan-Germanism, for three years at a stand-still, once more takes up its march Eastward. The great Central Empire, extending from the North Sea to Constantinople and far into Asia Minor, the German dream realized stares the world in the face...
...today we learn that Rumania has bowed before the Kaiser, that Dobrudja has been ceded to the Central Powers, and that German and Turkish troops press on along the Black Sea to the very borders of Persia. Rumania a vassal of Austria, Bulgaria a willing tool, and vast territories wrung from Russia complete a brief but overwhelming accomplishment. The German tide, which we believed to be receding, has reached its highest flood. The Allies futilely hammer on the Western Front and their enemies reap whole nations in a seemingly irresistible advance. The world, as seen from our shores, presents...