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When the Liberty Loan was first announced to the public our press with large optimism proclaimed that the issue would be oversubscribed many times in a very few weeks. Were we not the richest nation on the earth, with wealth estimated at two hundred billions? An absolutely inconceivable amount even to the most universal mind. The loan represented a bare one per cent of our amazing resources. The press declared our banks would be crowded with eager buyers...
...Russian revolution was hailed in this country with the most exuberant delight. The mass of people stated with confidence that now Russia was rid of her pro-German autocracy, and would fight unhindered with the other great free peoples of the earth against the thraldom of Germany...
...trust they will do something this careless world will not forget, Harvard men will be stirred to see this man who has saved a nation. There will be few enough in life to attain to greatness. Joffre has attained it in fame while republics yet live on the earth...
...first time since civilization has been in possession of the means of transportation to foster commerce, Europe faces actual hunger. Great nations are knowing the failure of sufficient nourishment to feed their peoples. In three years of war the most powerful races of the earth have been reduced from a state of astounding opulence to a condition where their very lives may depend upon their ability to obtain food. In such a condition of universal and terrible lack, which is the forerunner of starvation, the United States, whose resources our rhetoricians are fond of calling unlimited, is called upon...
Professor Woodworth has been in charge of the University seismographic station since 1908. The seismographic is used to detect movements in the earth's crust, and in war to detect the location of hostile batteries, for gun-fire affects the landscape much like an earthquake. The tremors of the crust due to gun-fire can be recorded by this instrument...