Word: regions
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...following men have been killed in the service: P. C. Bentley '17, killed at the Chemin des Dames; H. B. Craig '19, killed in the region of Mort Homme; E. C. Sortwell '10, killed by accident in Salonika; H. M. Suckley '10, killed in Koritza, Serbia. The following have died in the service: A. L. Bliss '16, died of pneumonia before going to the front; H. B. Lines, L. '12-15, died of pneumonia while on service in the Argonne. The following were wounded: D. W. Rich '18, C. U. Shreve...
British forces have captured Jerusalem from the Turks. Ever since war started in this region all Christianity has been hoping for the reconquest of the Holy Land. Military value is important to be sure, but is insignificant to the historical and religious interest. Mohammedans have held this city for over twelve centuries, although their away was twice broken for short periods. Now the Christian troops seem to be making a more permanent acquisition, as they drive the Turks before them. The English have succeeded in accomplishing what was hoped for, and attempted during many years...
...others ready to go out as soon as the necessary drivers are obtained. One of these sections, commanded by Lovering Hill '10 who has been given a lieutenant's commission in the French army, has recently gone to Salonika after 18 months service in Alsace and in the Verdun region. A. B. Mason '08, Carleton Burr '13 and H. M. Luckley '10 are in command of units in the Verdun. Alsace and Somme sectors respectively...
...London Spectator, in an editorial entitled "De Minimus," says: "It is good for every man's character that there should be some spiritual region in which he can do as he likes, some land of little things where he may be delivered from the tyranny of the long arm." This reflection may invite more appreciation in England, where tradition and time-honored custom have established a political and social inertia reasonably impervious to radical pressure, than in America, whose institutions are not similarly encrusted. However, herein lies a possible indication of our own proneness to talk and act nonsensically. College...
...romance. The expedition had gone far up the Nile, to Napata, in the province of Dongola, on that stretch of the great river where, after its plunge at the Mograt cataract, it turns southward, to plunge once more and to bend northward again at old Dongola. This is the region where ancient Egypt merged into Ethiopia, and where the architectural and other remains of antiquity betray the presence of kings more ancient still than those who built the temples of Napata. Where does the romance enter, in the researches which Dr. Reisner carried on here? In the fact that...