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...Prince '75, of Boston. The ceremony took place in the Elysee when Dr. Prince, as special envoy of the 500 American signers, emphasized in his presentation speech the desire of the Americans doing active work in France to express collectively their sympathy for the French nation. The memorial, which bore the title "America to France" in gold letters, contained the autograph signatures of the American sitizens represented and a message of sympathy to the people of the Allied nations. The volume will shortly be placed in the National Museum...
Whatever the majority of those who frequent Memorial find in the conversation, the intellectually ambitious find it an extreme bore...
...soon as we left St. Nicholas evidences that we were in close proximity to the battle-line crowded in on us thick and fast. We passed several detachments of mud-stained infantry who bore unmistakable signs of having passed the previous night in the trenches. The fields on either side of the road were pitted with shell holes; many of the farmhouses were charred and roofless; and the plain wooden crosses which marked the graves of fallen heroes became increasingly frequent as we sped along. Some of the bodies had been buried so hastily that the spring rains and early...
...symbols have been placed in positions corresponding to those at the opposite end of the bridge. The right hand column, as one faces the Stadium, has a tablet on which these words have been inscribed: "On either side of the river there was a tree of life, which bore twelve manner of fruits and yielded her fruit every month, and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations."--Rev. XXII, 2. Above this is the symbol of the soldier...
...University's critics frequently cry loudly that Harvard has forgotten its inclusive character and gone into one camp or another. Several years ago a book appeared by one John Corbin, in which one chapter bore the ominous title, "Harvard, a Germanized University." And periodically the idea crops out that by some metamorphosis our older universities have been transformed from "good old English" institutions to narrow "single-aim" laboratories for academic research. The fact is that Harvard, as President Lowell pointed out at a meeting of graduate students last year, owes something to the educational systems of all the leading nations...