Word: french
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Twenty-nine members of the University have signed up to join the American Ambulance Field Service in France. This contingent is scheduled to sail from New York for Bordeaux on May 19. Some Steamer of the French Line will take the unit across. Applications to join the Ambulance Service have been pouring in so fast from all over the country that all accommodations for sailing up to June 2 have already been filled. In all, 192 men will go May 19 to drive ambulances, 203 the following week, and 165 on June 2. Many of these men have signed...
...next Saturday the University will be honored by the presence as its guests of Marshal Joffre and the French Commission. France signally paid a tribute to the great regard in which it holds America when it sent Marshal Joffre here as an ambassador to consult concerning the common warfare against the single enemy. That one act would have served as strong proof to us of our spiritual relation with the great republic of Europe, whose liberties we have long come to regard as unalterably bound...
...University will be discharged from the Corps not later than tomorrow evening. The remainder of the men accepted will report at the camp on Monday, May 14, and those of this number in the R. O. T. C. here will be discharged after the ceremonies in honor of the French envoys...
...passed over but has not spared. It is not the men who die in battle, glorious and brave in their oblivion of the selfish animal instincts for self-preservation at any cost, who are pitiful. It is rather those who are left. Of such are the children of French soldiers who have fallen in battle...
Children of French soldiers are left orphaned after every battle. For most of them there is no means of obtaining the necessities of life save through gifts. If the German Emperor had never had dreams of Weltmacht, and been content to hold to his central domains, many brave Frenchmen would now be living in peace, and their children would look to their fathers for support. But the ambition of a foreign emperor brought havoc in lands not under his control, and as a result the orphans of France call to America...