Word: russian
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Professor A. C. Coolidge will give ten lectures on "The Historical Antecedents of the War"; Colonel Azan and other officers will describe phases of actual warfare in Europe; Professor Gay will discuss the economic aspects of the war in four lectures; Professor Lord and Dr. Klein will treat the Russian and South American connection; and Professor A. B. Hart, with Professor MacDonald, of Brown University, and others, will consider the more strictly national aspect. A fifth quiz-hour will be added for those who wish to take the course for credit; and a feature will be made of a large...
...struggle will be treated in the course. Commandant Azan and other officers of the French Mission will describe phases of the actual warfare employed in Europe; Professor E. F. Gay will discuss the economic side of the conflict; Professor R. H. Lord and Dr. J. Klein will treat the Russian and South American connection; Professor A. C. Coolidge '87 will detail the historical antecedents; and Professor A. B. Hart '80 and others will consider a more strictly national viewpoint. An extra examination hour will be added for those who wish to take the course for credit...
...Russian revolution was hailed in this country with the most exuberant delight. The mass of people stated with confidence that now Russia was rid of her pro-German autocracy, and would fight unhindered with the other great free peoples of the earth against the thraldom of Germany...
That was a valiant hope. But it was sadly untrue to what history and wisdom might teach us of the courses of revolutions. Freed from that social order and that political burden which had bound them from immemorial time, it was inevitable that the Russian people should grow exuberant with the intoxication of first liberty. Much as we, much as the Allies, might wish Russia to enter in the common war against Germany with renewed fire and fiercer incentive for victory, yet our wishes nor the wishes of the Allies could influence a people before whom an instant and more...
...whispered that the German Emperor is not adverse to the council. Perhaps he bears a deeper love to the Russian socialist than the holder of the same political tenets nearer home. However, the Emperor's interest is not necessarily the indication of a turn towards democracy...