Word: englanders
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Harvard has opened the enrolment lists for its camp to students and graduates of all colleges and to seniors in high and preparatory schools who expect to enter college in the fall. Moreover, and of equal importance, complete news has come in of the "New England College Military Camp," which will be conducted this summer at Williamstown, Mass., under the auspices of Amherst, Clark, Dartmouth, Trinity, Tufts, Wesleyan and Williams. It will be open upon the same terms to students and graduates of these colleges, as also to men who intend to enter them next fall, with the passage...
Public opinion and the light of criticism are indispensable to the success of popular government. In times of war, however, they must be tempered by the incontravertible necessity of centralization of power and responsibility. America now has its powerful administration; England long ago created its war council. They both are actuated by the principle that democratic forms must be sacrificed in times of national emergency. They allow for healthy criticism, but they demand a complete freedom from petty interference and partisan dissension. In America and England there have been mistakes and many of them. Human nature is far from infallible...
Thirty-five University undergraduates have been accepted by the American Red Cross for ambulance driving during this summer at the Italian front, according to the list issued yesterday by Joseph Fay '91, in charge of the Bureau of Personnel of the New England Division of the Red Cross. The men will probably sail immediately upon the close of the special examination period and will serve for a maximum period of six months...
...words of General French, "saved the situation". Behind the city, under a grove of Canadian maples, lie six thousand of Canada's bravest sons, her first contribution in the Great War to the defence of the mother country. And now on the slopes about the shell-torn city stand England's own sons, gathered in the divisions of England's volunteer and conscript army. Commanders may debate the strategic value of the city as they did at Verdun, but the events of the last two weeks prove that if it is evacuated it will not be because of the defection...
Lieutenant Quincy Shaw Greene '13, of the Third Battalion, Coldstream Guards, has also been killed in the great battle now going on in France. In the spring of 1915 he went to England, and after a period of training at Windsor received a commission as second lieutenant in the pioneer battalion of the Guards...