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...with Germany has resulted in the belief by the majority of the German people that the war is already won. The other method consists in pointing out in exaggerated terms what England and her allies will do to Germany if they win. The English have threatened not only to destroy the German government and dismember Austria-Hungary, but to bring economic dependency and ruin on every individual German...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FROM THE GERMAN STANDPOINT. | 10/22/1917 | See Source »

...increase in their activities is the result of a desire to take advantage of the country while it is engaged in war, and being supplied with large funds of money if not from German representatives at least from German sympathizers, they have been particularly active in their attempts to destroy our food supply and prevent the production of war minerals. In these attempts they have been singularly successful. Grain elevators are still being burned and copper mining in Butte has been paralyzed since spring...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE TROUBLESOME I. W. W. | 10/20/1917 | See Source »

...country is looking for. Harvard has the French Officers, an almost perfect organization and a large body of serious, willing workers--three elements essential to the task which those who fostered the University regiment sought to do. It will take something decidedly more powerful than mere rumor to destroy all the good which has been brought about by the University corps...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RUMOR AND THE REGIMENT | 6/13/1917 | See Source »

...dearth. Those who learn are no less serving than those who drill. In a year's time a graduated doctor may be worth more to his nation than three first-line officers, and be the cause of saving more lives than fifty times his number of the enemy can destroy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MAKERS OF MEN | 5/23/1917 | See Source »

...entertainment, when such a day makes a fitting pause between academic study and military training. It seems to me that either by ballot or canvass the opinion of the class should be obtained, and in the meanwhile, the fact held well in mind that to delay may be to destroy. RICHARD K. KENNA...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communication | 4/24/1917 | See Source »

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