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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...German influence has disappeared as mysteriously as have the other elements,--the vaunted German control of the Sultan is entirely a thing of the past. The Berlin to Bagdad railway still exists but its terminal has changed now from Berlin to Paris. Turkey has been left helpless and adrift, and no country is willing to assume the responsibility of guiding the Turks to a haven of peace and industry, despite the fact that Turkey is as rich in resources as any part of the world...
...sermon Dr. Fosdick did not advance any Quixotic ideas of knight er-rantry on the part of the United States. He did give expression to a type of splendid American which has been mighty in the past, and which we trust will be mighty in the future. M. J. DONNER '21. P. P. COOGIN...
During the past week Mr. W. F. Garcelon '95, in whose hands the matter has been placed by the University, has been in New Haven to confer with Professor Mendel and others of the Yale board as to the advisability of sending a joint track team abroad. From his trip to New Haven no definite results were accomplished, and the matter as far as the University is concerned is still entirely unsettled. No further action has been taken by the Athletic Committee, and it is not expected that it will consider the matter until more definite information is available...
Mexico has apparently come to the conclusion that is is the better part of valor to suppress the kidnappers who have been operating along our border for the past two or three years. Our neighbor to the south burned his fingers in the Jenkins case, and evidently decided to take no chances on further complications arising from the kidnapping of the American named Hugo. What it all goes to show is that Carranza, no matter what he says, is pretty well able to dictate to the bandits what they shall and what they shall not do. Americans find it hard...
...well as charity begins at home. And where can we be better "reconstructed" in our ideas of the possibilities of the English language than by listening to Professor Copeland? May his readings continue until the "Letters from France" and the "Hero's Couch" are but memories of the distant past...