Word: germane
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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From the point of view of the German government, there are just two ways in which the German people can be made to bear the ever-increasing burdens of war without questioning the legitimacy or power of the authority over them. The first is that of holding out world domination as the reward of victory. The fact that the military advantage in the war has so far lain with Germany has resulted in the belief by the majority of the German people that the war is already won. The other method consists in pointing out in exaggerated terms what England...
...limited to any one class of workingmen. This summer the great increase in their activities is the result of a desire to take advantage of the country while it is engaged in war, and being supplied with large funds of money if not from German representatives at least from German sympathizers, they have been particularly active in their attempts to destroy our food supply and prevent the production of war minerals. In these attempts they have been singularly successful. Grain elevators are still being burned and copper mining in Butte has been paralyzed since spring...
Changed methods of warfare and German thoroughness make such a trap improbable. Charles XII and Napoleon lived on the land through which they passed; but Hindenburg's army would have to depend on a base of supplies well in the rear. For this reason, the line of communications is not so apt to be neglected as in former campaigns. The Teutons have followed their advances by an adequate and efficient system of railways. Furthermore, the large number of forces involved renders impossible a separate incursion involving only a small portion of the troops. Security demands that no section...
...being forced to do nothing when every day the Government is suggesting ways for everyone to help? Shooting at the Prussians is not the only way of winning the war. Supposing after proper training the whole United States Army should be taken to Europe and should hurl down the German Army and Capture Berlin; would we then return home without a word, satisfied with merely a military victory? Of course...
...Joseph William Courtney '90, Arthur Willard Fairbanks and John Jenks Thomas, M. D., '90, as Associates in Neurology; Walter Elmore Fernald '13 as Associate in Psychistry; Curtis Worth Chenoweth, A. M., '13, as Instructor in Public Speaking; Arthur Burkhard, Ph. D., '17, and Edward Vere Brewer as Instructors in German; Brewer Goddard Whitmore as Instructor in Government; Joseph Lee '83 and Arthur Orlo Norton '97 as Lectures on Education; Arthur Fisher Whittem '12 as Secretary of Administrative Board for Special Students; Warren Milton Persons as Statistician of the Committee on Economic Research; Frederick Summer Mead '87 as Editor...