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...here will remember lastingly the brave and simple French soldier. It is to be expected that Joffre will remember Harvard. Perhaps through him France will gain an increased respect for the learning of America, and the two nations be bound yet more firmly by the ties of free thinking as by the ties of free action...
...then the throng having collected, representative of the South's chivalry and the South's courage, the mob thrust their victim into a small steel cage from which there was no escape. They bound him by chains at the hands and feet. Lest he, no doubt, should, although a member of the despised race and one against thousands, put to rout these courageous Southern gentlemen. When they had bound him, the chains being hard and the steel bars strong, they tortured him; the mob, with the fiendish tortures which from time immemorial have been the pastime of savages. And when...
...wastage of warfare is appalling. Were it not for the tremendously increased efficiency and knowledge of our medical men and surgeons such wastage would in a few months thin below the minimum of fighting power the strongest armies. Fortunately we are not bound by the ignorance which in the wars of a half-century ago caused the losses of innumerable lives through fever, contagious diseases, and gangrene. The knowledge given to the world by Pasteur and his followers has enabled the medical corps of all the warring armies to restore in the shortest time and with the least loss...
Choate lived to know the great English-speaking nations bound more closely together in amity than ever before since they have endured as separate powers. He saw his nation gathering her strength to join to the strength of England in the battle of the age. He took part in the formation of that union which was the consummation of his hopes. Perhaps it would not have been worth much more for him to have remained yet a year or a decade seeing the success in achievement of those whom he had helped to unite in spirit. He must have known...
That was a valiant hope. But it was sadly untrue to what history and wisdom might teach us of the courses of revolutions. Freed from that social order and that political burden which had bound them from immemorial time, it was inevitable that the Russian people should grow exuberant with the intoxication of first liberty. Much as we, much as the Allies, might wish Russia to enter in the common war against Germany with renewed fire and fiercer incentive for victory, yet our wishes nor the wishes of the Allies could influence a people before whom an instant and more...