Word: readings
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Last Saturday we heard of the Germans on Kemmel Hill, of Ypres almost certainly lost, and the enemy storm heavy over the Channel ports. Today we read of a British Cabinet Minister warning his countrymen against a coming peace offensive. And yet the week that is gone has witnessed no Waterloo, no battle of the Marne, though it may be that Von Arnim's defeat between Ypres and Locre may be discovered some day to have borne a much greater significance than the very considerable importance we attach to it now. What we are witnessing today in the spirit...
...major points out that in the origin of the salute there was no hint of the servility which some raw recruits have foolishly read into this important feature of military etiquette...
...college education is only too often misunderstood by the undergraduate to mean the bare knowledge of the contents of the books that are read and the assimilation of the facts that are presented in the class room. Others, now in the minority, take the opposite view that the things to be sought at college lie totally without the class room...
...clock. M. Lauzanne is likewise an officer in the Legion of Honor. He is a man of reputation in his country, and that country now sends him to us to tell us something of France's story, her present situation, and her hopes. We have all read to a certain extent, but reading is tame sport compared to hearing. Tonight we have a man who knows and who has the personality to impart what he knows with great effect...
...Company E.--J. B. Read is hereby appointed Supply Sergeant, Company E, replacing Sergeant L. B. Evans...