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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...northern France played a part in determining campaigns. The great strategy of Marshal Foch in the final drives, was laid out with a full knowledge and a full appreciation of the importance of geography. The German army was crowded back toward the Ardennes, through which there was but one narrow pass, the valley of the Meuse. The retreat of such a vast army through that gorge would be impossible and when the route of transportation east and west was cut the situation for the enemy was desperate. The physical features held them on one side, the army of the Allies...
...previous announcement. It was thought at first that this play, which was about to be produced in 1917 when hostilities commenced could be used, but the plan had to be abandoned, as it was found that the production was somewhat out of date. The Hasty Pudding is the only one of the undergraduate clubs of its type which is producing theatricals this year, both the D. U. and the Pi Eta Clubs having decided not to give their annual performances...
...February, 1917 Col. Cabot definitely took over the unit which had increased from five hundred and forty to three thousand beds. By far the larger number of the patients were British and Canadians who had been wounded in the fighting around Ypres. At one time, during the German offensive of March, 1918, twelve hundred patients were received by the unit within twenty-four hours...
...unit was established under Sir Allan Perry of the English Army at Dannes-Camieres near Boulogne in June, 1915. It was one of a large number of hospitals which stretched south for twenty miles along the seashore road from Boulogne. Most of the British supplies were landed and stored in this district which, consequently, drew an almost continual flock of enemy bombing machines...
...Furthermore, in my opinion, however paradoxical it may seem, the broader or less 'specialized' the college education, the better is the man fitted for his great specialization--his life work., I firmly believe that the chief part of the educational reconstruction will be that the college graduate of twenty-one or two will come to realize that he is not too old to pursue his studies further (in the law school, for instance, or the graduate school of business, or the technical school,) because he will understand that the longest way around is, in this case, the shortest way home...