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...Cross is doing in comforting the soldiers in the trenches and in the rest camps behind the battle front, of the indispensable aid it has brought to the hospitals, and of the tremendous good it has done to the needy children and old people; but few appreciate the indirect effect which all this work will bring about. We are giving a demonstration to the people of our allies that we are really in this war. We are showing them that we are not the 'land of the dollar,' but a land of honor, justice and mercy...
March 3.--Dr. L. W. Baker '98 on "The Deformed Mouth of a Child; its Effect on the Child's Future...
...quite like the Halifax disaster has ever occurred. Plenty of munition depots and munition ships as large as the Mont Blanc have doubtless been blown up in this war, and scores of costly collisions between vessels have occurred. But never has an explosion on board ship had the disastrous effect of this one. It is supposed that the Mont Blanc carried a huge amount of the new explosive, trinitrotuluol, T.N.T., a glistening pale-yellow powder, as potent as nitroglycerine, though safer to handle. Moreover, the situation of the ship in the half-mile-wide Narrows, between two rising shores, seems...
...thing is certain--he has his opinions and these are to be regarded. But we hardly think our enthusiastic comment of yesterday morning on the British capture of Jerusalem calls for such a Philippic. Had we been presenting a detailed study of the taking of Jerusalem and its effect upon the world, we should have been guilty of a grave omission in making no mention of the Jewish people. In our opinion the two words, Jew and Jerusalem, are closely associated. We are well aware of the promise of the British Empire. But ahead of both these comes the fact...
...Cross causes a great psychological effect on the soldiers going home for rest by furnishing large halls with beds and food and baths for them, and thereby making them feel as though someone cared for them...