Word: wars
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...last six years the Mexican Government has adopted the policy of goading the United States just as far as it is safe, stopping short only when it seems that open war is the next step. American troops have been on the border all that length of time, even when they were badly needed in France. Mexico has been a thorn not only in our side, but in that of Europe as well. The latter will soon reach the limit of their patience. Our much-touted Monroe Doctrine is going to be an embarrassment to any administration we may elect. Euro...
...Second, we want, if possible, to have our neutrality guaranteed as is the case in Belgium and Switzerland. We are still too small and too unformed to stand alone against the ring of enemies about us. Lastly, we want material support--supplies, provisions, medicines, everything. The war has left us destitute and the misery of my country is beyond description...
...back as any undergraduate or "middle-aged" graduate of the College can remember, Copey's readings have been an essential part of the life of the University. Through the trying years of the war we were able to struggle along without sugar and coal, we willingly gave up our afternoons to close order drill, and even renounced our hereditary privilege of beating Yale on the gridiron. But exist without readings from "Copey" we could...
Having passed through the terrors of war, we hopefully face the even more perilous times of reconstruction ahead. Reconstruction as well as charity begins at home. And where can we be better "reconstructed" in our ideas of the possibilities of the English language than by listening to Professor Copeland? May his readings continue until the "Letters from France" and the "Hero's Couch" are but memories of the distant past...
...Colonel Roosevelt "average"? Not a bit. He is a real chip of the old block, combative, honest, direct--not to say blunt--like his father before him. His war record was first rate; his book is a good deal better than might be expected from an author of little literary experience. There is lots of the Roosevelt personality in the book, and lots of the First Division spirit. For some, and let us hope many readers, that should be sufficient recommendation...