Word: come
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Fresh from the English trenches in France, Captain Ian Hay Beith has come to America to resume in person his lively and picturesque narrative of the "First Hundred Thousand--still first", as he touchingly puts it at the close of his book, but, alas, no longer The Hundred Thousand. At the beginning of the war he enlisted in a well-known Highland regiment, in spite of the fact that his thirty-eight years put him almost over the age limit for military service. Then came six months of arduous training at Aldershot with the other members of the motley collection...
...They come from the Far West, where of necessity the interests of the belligerents and the stupendous tragedy of the great struggle must be felt less keenly. They are going a longer distance to "do their bit." The spirit that is symbolized in the service of these hundred men is worthy of our highest praise...
...startling and spectacular in the extreme; for its immediate cause was insignificant. It revealed the presence of strong feeling and overwrought nerves--a sort of bursting charge that needed only a slight detonation to set it off. The situation is very much as though two men should come to harsh blows because one had accidentally broken the point of the other's pencil. In both cases a mere trifle would have resulted in important developments; the immediate cause could not possibly justify or explain the resultant action...
...dream is now at an end. The British government will permit no more German students to come to Oxford and it is not unlikely that the Rhodes scholarships will be abolished altogether. By cutting off the German aspirants Great Britain is dealing the heaviest possible blow against the Rhodes plan. Surely Great Britain has the greatest need of an understanding with Germany, and any movement toward universal international amity which excludes Germany must be futile...
...library is as yet incomplete but contains most of the best works of English literature, together with the best of foreign literature, history, biography and travel. The room is intended to be a place where those who want to read for the sake of reading may come, leaving the reading room for special college courses to the larger reading rooms...