Word: englanders
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...interference with importations into Holland and Denmark, it is a well-known fact that we were ourselves the first country to establish the doctrine of 'ultimate destination,' by preventing importations into the Mexican port of Matamoros because they were sent from there across the Rio Grande into Texas. Similarly, England, aware, for example, that more lard was imported into Copenhagen in three weeks than into all Denmark in the previous eight years, has sought to prevent such importations whenever there was good ground for believing that their ultimate destination was Germany. The Allied blockade has been effective, as a legitimate...
...than it was a hundred years ago that our first line of defence is the Navy. It is more true. The elaboration of modern war has made the machine the essential element of defence. A battleship is the most stupendous kind of a war machine. The contest between England, the greatest sea-power, and Germany, the greatest land-power, has proved to the world that a navy which may command the seas avails more than millions of men fighting in the trenches, or hundreds of millions of treasure...
...great crowd of men that heard Captain Beith last night in the Union must have realized the tragic similarity between the unprepared condition of England at the beginning of the war and the present condition of our country. The spontaneous applause at the close of Captain Beith's talk was evidence that Harvard men approved the service that the speaker had given his country. Will patriotic undergraduates stop at mere approval of personal sacrifice, or will they mirror...
...experience the struggle which the captain tells of, his lecture must take on a peculiar significance. The conditions he has undergone will not be duplicated for us. But the terrible proficiency of modern national internecine warfare makes many truths that are applicable to Belgium applicable also to New England or California...
...tenth annual meeting of the Classical Association of New England, Eastern Massachusetts section, will be held in Harvard Hall this morning at 10 o'clock. The Association holds sectional conferences in the various states as well as a general annual meeting. Professor G. H. Chase '96, curator of Classical Antiquities, is a member of the executive committee...