Word: presentation
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Mott was appointed a member of the American Commission to Russia headed by Elihu Root, and because of his recent return from this field he will have much to tell concerning the present situation in Russia. He was offered the ambassadorship to China by President Wilson, but he refused the post because of his important work in connection with soldiers. The University will be the only college in the country at which Dr. Mott will speak in the nation wide campaign which he is making for the Red Triangle War Work...
...meeting of law and graduate students of the University, to be held in the Phillips Brooks House tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock. The subject of the talk, as announced by Major Beith, will be "Carrying On," and his words will deal with conditions in the war at present and with his own experiences and impressions during his most recent visit to the trenches on the Western Front...
...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...
Pessimism because of Italian losses or a Russian upheaval need not be too great. Activity in France is just as important. The defense along the Taglia-mento has called away attention from the present British advance beyond Ypres. This receives no very prominent place in the news; yet it may be of enormous consequence. In the first place, here is further proof that the English have conclusively solved the problem of how to win in trench warfare. The lack of emphasis in the papers only shows that such a drive is more and more a matter of course. Furthermore, unlike...
...office has scored heavily by this new offensive. The companies will be commanded by men of intellect; the natural leader is a mere tradition. Yet we have learned our lesson; the necessity of knowing details has been impressed upon us. Glittering generalities are things of the past; the present officer must know how many men are in the Philippine Constabulary and on what date the transports leave for Hawail, otherwise he is unfit. In the old days to have some idea of the position of a soldier qualified one for an A, now to pass one must have studied Moss...