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...cannot resuscitate the drunken enthusiasm of 1914, any more than ten million men can be resuscitated from the fields of glory. There will doubtless be a number of flag-waving enthusiasts in this country; and perhaps one of them will even climb on a rostrum in Memorial Hall to address an audience of future soldiers. But however noble-spirited his talk, it will not elicit the raucous cheers of olden times. To convince the new generation of the necessity of war, more plausible arguments are needed than the hackneyed formulae which sent the heroes of 1914 to their graves...
When Professor Merriman's place on the New lecture Hall rostrum is taken by a number of deans and teachers this morning, every Yardling ought to be in the audience. For the choice of a field of concentration is perhaps the most important decision the undergraduate has to make. All too often students, taking the line of least resistance, select the field which interested them most in high-school, or the one which seems to be most "practical." Only infrequently is any real consideration given to other possibilities. If today's meeting serves merely to jar the freshman into thinking...
...oblong beer hall-sanctum sanctorum of the Nazi Party, perhaps the best guarded room frequented by the best guarded man in the world. The veterans packed the balcony; pressed around the one central pillar supporting the entire ceiling; crowded to the very foot of the speaker's white rostrum. The big men-Hitler, Göebbels, Himmler, Frick, Hess, Ley, Rosenberg, Streicher, Brückner-were there on time (only Göring was absent, holding the fort in Berlin); so were the small fry, like Wilhelm Weber, a radio speaker, Leonhard Reindl, an office clerk, and jolly, buxom...
...been announced that the evening's speech would be delivered by Herr Hitler's deputy, Rudolf Hess. But at 8:04, Adolf Hitler took the rostrum. Traditionally the annual beer-hall speech has been secret; but this time it was broadcast. For 57 minutes Herr Hitler let them have it (see p. 22). At 9:01 he stepped down from the rostrum and briefly passed among his followers. Usually on these occasions he has sat down to sip beer and swap yarns until wee hours, but this time he left the hall after just nine minutes. With...
...wanted the law discretionary; Secretary Hull sought to have the law read: "The President may proclaim." Without enthusiasm, Franklin Roosevelt signed the bill that came to his ship in the Gulf of Mexico May 1, 1937 - and the word was "shall." Last week the President spoke from the House rostrum his grave regret for that signature of approval - the first time since he became Chief Executive he has thus publicly admitted a major mistake. This conciliatory note was typical of the surface serenity of last week's Washington scene...