Word: westerners
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...great mass of the German army is concentrated on the western front. There remain but a few divisions in Roumania, only one in Palestine, and none whatever in Mesopotamia or on the Italian front. The war must be decided in the west, where great armies are drawn up. We have resigned ourselves to a long and bitter struggle. It is through the long process of attrition, of wearing Germany out by sheer destruction of numbers, that the final victory is to be won. Serious as the events of the immediate past have been, they afford no basis for despondency. When...
This notice came unexpectedly to the Military Office and to the men selected to attend the O. T. C., as it had been commonly thought that the entire University quota would be sent to Camp Devens, at Ayer. The removal of the men to the middle-western cantonment has been ordered, however, without any explanation from the War Department...
Evan J. David '07, business manager of the aeronautical magazine, "Flying," will lecture on "Aviation in War and Peace" in Brattle Hall this evening at 8 o'clock. He will illustrate his points with lantern slides and, in addition, will show motion pictures of actual airplane warfare on the western front. The lecture is being given especially for members of the University, but the public may attend...
...grim situation on the western front demands men. The onsweeping hordes of the enemy can be stopped only by the bodies of men, the will power of men, the exalted spirit of men. The battle may be lost for lack of other things. It cannot be won without men. When the enemy is stopped, as he must and will be stopped, as he must be driven back whence he came, overwhelmed and crushed. That will require more men--men by companies, by battalions, by regiments, by divisions, by armies. The victory for humanity and righteousness will...
...those who had hoped for better things, the events of the past weeks have been dark ones upon the Western Front. Where yesterday the battle raged around Cambrai and far east of the Somme, the opposing armies are now aligned upon the Messines Ridge. That the tide of battle has meant a serious reversal for the Allies, no explanation or expression of hope may minimize. The Allies have been driven back and even now are struggling at a point beyond which the German hordes may possibly pour to the sea. The war has been indefinitely prolonged, and its final verdict...