Word: englanders
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...immediately enrolled in the Tenth Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, which went into training at Aldershot in the fall of 1914. The regiment remained in training for six months and were finally sent to the front in the spring of 1915 as members of the first detachment of England's volunteer army. Captain Beith's ability and courage soon won him a commission and he rose rapidly to the rank of captain. He has recently been granted a furlough by the British War Office to lecture in this country on England's part in the war and has already spoken...
...come to America. Captain Beith sees the humorous as well as the serious side of the situations created by the war, and if the graphic pen pictures in his book may be taken as a criterion, he is the best qualified of any of the lecturers whom England has so far sent to this country to explain her part in the war. Members of the University will have an excellent opportunity to hear him when he speaks in Sanders Theatre this afternoon at four o'clock...
...England has always prided itself on the fact that it was not only a pioneer in the cause of popular education in this country but that its educational institutions are second to none in the whole broad land. It is, therefore, a bit startling, to express it mildly, to hear from no less distinguished a person than the Rev. Billy Sunday now conducting a revival in the very shadow of Harvard University, that New England colleges are the "rottenest" in the country. The noted revivalist is quoted, in the news-paper reports of his sermon to mothers last Friday...
...England will have several booths and the British Imperial Booth, embodying the idea of the empire will be one of the largest displays at the Bazaar. The other British booths are devoted to the different portions of the Empire...
...plot itself, much remains doubtful. Most doubtful of all, is our feeling at the very end, when the Hungarian dancer wins the consent of a New England trained nurse to be his bride. Will they, can they conceivably live happily ever after, and if so, how long...