Word: masse
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...brief history of the events that have led to the present upheaval. The beginning of the trouble, he stated, dates back to 1861, when the freeing of the serfs opened a path for them into politics. Then the events of the early '90s gave Russia a large and important mass of middle-classmen who were anxious for political power. A gospel of discontent and protest was preached unceasingly and the tendency of Russia was to stretch everything beyond the proper limits...
...however, members alone will mean nothing. The University must be there. Dr. Mott can always address non-collegiate audiences; his talk here is the only one of its kind to be given,--he is to speak at this University and none other. The assembly then must be of a mass meeting nature and the tickets distributed should not be given out to family or friends; we want the University itself, not its followers. The lecture will be worth while, that is certain, and no one who comes will go home feeling that he has wasted an hour. Keep those tickets...
...typical dugout on the crest of a hard-fought hill, which we came to one evening about sunset. It was a battlefield but freshly taken from the enemy; the stench of the dead was still in the air, and the ground was torn and churned,--one horrid mass of blood-soaked earth, of twisted barbed wire and steel shell fragments, timbers and bits of concrete gun emplacements, pieces of personal clothing, shrapnel, broken rifles, unexploded bombs, rifle shells, human bones,--all shattered and ghastly and horrible. We were in front of the English batteries and could hear the English shells...
...Freshman football mass meeting preparatory to the Princeton game on Saturday held last evening in the Standish Hall Common Room was well attended, about 200 men being present...
There will be a Freshman mass meeting in the Common Room of Smith Halls this evening at 7 o'clock. It will be a send-off for the 1921 team, which will go to Princeton tomorrow to prepare for the game on Saturday...