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...generally at least as devotedly. We, too, have sent them men and money, have given them Chapman and Prince and Hoskier. Thus far, of course, our help has been individual and unofficial. But now that we are in actual alliance our co-operation will be a thousand times as effective because it has all the sanction of a great Government and a united people. Our soldiers will be able to fight for France without the risk of expatriation. Our money will go directly to the French treasury. And the French Government, in sending these officers to Harvard, is recognizing...
...will have a training camp it is no longer feasible for the eligible men in the R. O. T. C. to wait. These men want to obtain the best military instruction the country offers in order to fit themselves to be officers of the first army of five hundred thousand. The system of officers' training camps which have already been authorized will give this. Since it is doubtful whether a federal camp is to be established in Cambridge, all those in the R. O. T. C. at present who fulfill the requirements for the regular camp at Plattsburg should...
...government is different, Porto Rico has enjoyed as great a degree of material prosperity under American domination, as Cuba, my answer would be that the descendants of Don Quixote think more highly of their honor than of their bodily comfort. For myself, I say that I prefer a thousand times self-support with all the troubles and vicissitudes which it entails to the shelter and comfort of the walls of Sing Sing. And to the Sanchos who would ridicule my typical Latin sentimentality, let the noble sentimentality of the Belgian people which saved the world from Prussian militarism...
...necessary to understand political conditions in Colombia to grasp the the position of that country in international affairs," declared Phanor J. Eder, LL.B., in a lecture in Emerson J yesterday morning. "Colombia is practically an oligarchy. A few thousand people in the country control public opinion absolutely. Those people are very sensitive, and this must be taken into consideration in dealing with them. It is almost impossible for us to conceive a people with no political education, but the Colombians have none. In their early years they get none of that social education which is the real foundation...
...book, 'The First Hundred Thousand," Ian Hay is best known in this country, although he is rapidly acquiring a reputation as a forceful speaker and lecturer. In this widely read work he graphically pictured the conditions in England at the outbreak of the war, and told of the length of time required to train a body of volunteers to the efficiency necessary in modern warfare. He has been granted a furlough by the British War Office to lecture in this country on England's part...