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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...where he coordinated the movements of several French and British armies, and held back the enemy on the Flanders front; the third occasion was the battle of the Somme. But not alone his record inspires confidence; the opinions of other great men should be given weight. And it should never be forgotten that Joffre, that infallible judge of soldiers, once declared that "the greatest strategist in Europe is Foch...
...power at least twenty-four hours, we shall refrain from posting the Russian score. The main difficulty in attempting to be a military critic of Russian affairs comes from the fact that when the report reaches us that Kerensky is marching upon Petrograd with 200,000 men we never are quite certain whether the army is being run by Kerensky or whether they are leading him back to jail. The Russian soldier is so wonderfully obedient that any one can march him off to battle; moreover it is much more amusing to shoot at Battalions of Death than at Germans...
...Having been privileged to visit the British Y. M. C. A. work at the very front, we were taken in the afternoon on the 20th to the old battlefield of B--.We now got our first impression of the real thing, because never before have I seen such devastation. Absolutely not a tree was left standing, and hardly was there a square yard of ground which had not been churned up by a shell. Yet amid all this we were driving on a road equal to any of our state roads, and which is typical of all the roads which...
...great gathering place of the nations of the world; the manhood of America gathered there; many homesick, some distressed in mind, all facing issues of life and death and wondering about things they had never wondered about before,--there is an opportunity for army chaplains, for the Y. M. C. A. and for other up building forces, like of which has scarcely ever been seen...
...being outfought by Exeter the 1921 team came back. Against an eleven estimated to be their superiors, the Freshmen showed that in the absence of the University team they could represent us in a worthy fashion. They bearded the Tiger in his lair and humbled him in a manner never dreamed of even by their most ardent supporters...