Word: war
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...possession. Julius Caesar led his legions across the the present battlefield in B.C. 57, while in pursuit of the Nervii. The Franks wrested the region from the Romans and the Northmen in turn from the Franks, sacking St. Quentin in 883 A.D. Picardy was devastated in the Hundred Years' War between France and England, and the armies of the Emperor Charles V. invaded it, besieging Peronne in 1536 and St. Quentin 21 years later. Wellington led the English army through Peronne on the way to Paris after Waterloo. The neighboring fortress of Ham, which was wrecked last spring...
...standards which men have set for it in the past. These institutions, as I have described them, exist all about us; a large part of their product are at present killing one another on the battlefields of Europe. Sociologists may have their "complications and modifications," but the war in which we are now engaged points clearly to but one fact: the unchecked growth of a deadly materialism in human society. The school, in the default of the church, might have prevented this. What is the matter...
Lieutenant Morize will speak before the Society of Harvard Dames in the Fogg Art Museum this afternoon at 3.30 o'clock. Several slides of war scenes will be shown. At the close of the address a social hour will be given in the Phillips Brooks House by the Society...
...This war more than any preceding conflict is a war between the morales of the opposing forces. The side is going to win which has the greatest unity of purpose. But in order to realize the necessary unity of spirit in the war we have got to get rid of some of the obstacles which hinder the full apportionment of our common fighting strength and herd instinct. These obstacles are essentially three...
...second place, there are traces of the enemy spirit which we have left in ourselves. Profiteering, for example, is the chief representative among us of the German idea,--the very thing we are fighting against. There is probably less profiteering in America in this war than in any other we have ever fought, and more fine examples of sacrifice of personal interest on the part of large business. What we have chiefly got to do is to clear out the last remnant of the old evil. This can best be done by treating a few conspicuous examples as traitors...