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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...horizon as most people imagine. It is not all certain for example, that the Russian debacle has been unqualifiedly to the advantage of Germany. In relieving the purely military situation it undoubtedly has been a godsend; but if could ascertain its effect on the German proletariat we should doubtless find that it has tremendously increased the difficulty of keeping the German autocracy in the saddle. There is reason to think that the German Emperor and his adviser are today viewing the question of peace more from the standpoint of maintaining intact the existing bureaucratic government than from any other angle...
Wray, former Penn, centre, and Garlow, the Carlisle Indian, are fast men in the centre of the line, while Dale from Kansas and Little, also from Penn., are hard playing tackles. Avery of Penn, and Donovan will find hard work against Skilton and Lally on the ends...
...possibility of a similar development presents itself in America. It is plainly foreshadowed by the Provost-Marshal General's prediction that the Government will find it necessary to include in the National Draft men of the ages from 18 to 21. Here is a serious possibility, but one which must be faced in all resolution. The Civil War was largely won by the men of these ages. Among them is much of the material which experience has shown best able to stand the strain of battle. The disturbance of their education, though most unfortunate, is less threatening to the country...
...addition to this opportunity for rest or recuperation, the soldier-students can also satisfy their desire to see how English universities are managed, what traditions they have, and how they train their undergraduates. We all should like to find out the ways of brother-students abroad. Oxford and Cambridge are the original patterns of our American universities. Our student-soldiers may learn much from a visit to those old seats of learning...
...stagger back to Cambridge and find our room-mates suffering from an overdose of turkey and discover that cranberries and ice cream have made us feel a little queer, we begin to realize that. Thanksgiving is all right while it lasts, but afterwards comes the reckoning. Morcover, we have another month before Christmas, and a month is a long stretch of time, especially when it happens to be December. Added to that it is annoying and highly humiliating to constantly meet privates from one's company of last summer now wearing the uniform of a captain. After telling...