Word: war
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Cecil Rhodes established scholarships in Germany to bring promising young Teutons to Oxford in the hope of creating an international good-fellowship between the two empires. Ten years later the breaking out of war seemed to disprove the practicability of his theory. But only forty Germans made use of this opportunity and all of these were personally selected by the Kaiser. The future success of the plan elsewhere cannot therefore be judged by the situation with regard to Germany...
First Duty to End War...
...first duty of the Peace Conference at Paris was to being the war with Germany to an end and fix such terms of victorious peace as would discourage any nation from undertaking a war of wanton aggression for all time. But months have been wasted in parleying about vague schemes for future peace which should have been devoted to forcing Germany at once to realize that she has been defeated. After bringing this war to a close there will be ample time to talk about the prevention of future wars. They are two distinct and separate propositions...
...with the other applicants. All applicants are advised to form in groups of twelve, each group to elect a chairman who will accept responsibility for the other members and make all the arrangements for obtaining rooms. The prices of the various rooms will be the same as in pre-war years...
According to figures just given out by the office of the Medical School, there are now 305 students enrolled in this branch of the University. This is the only graduate School in which the war had a tendency to increase rather than decrease the enrollment. The medical students were not allowed by the government to leave their studies and even those preparing for this course were forced to stay at their regular work, so great was the government's need for skilled medical men. The complete figures by classes follow: First year, 98 Second year, 89 Third year, 100 Fourth...