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With the temporary cessation of activity along the Western Front, interest centers on the movements near Riga and the threat at Petrograd. Whenever a foe plans to invade Russia, one wonders if history will repeat itself. Is there any possibility that the Teutons will be caught in another Poltava or in a second Retreat from Moscow? Some seem to think this likely...
Overconfidence has ruined very many fine plans. As in football, so in war, the side which becomes too sure of itself, or too contemptuous of its foe, is due for a fall. The natural result or our six months in the conflict, without appreciable casualties, without seeing the power of the enemy, and without the stimulating influence of a Zeppelin raid, is to create a feeling that we have an easy path before us. Newspapers have enlarged this misconception. Stories of the remarkable strides being made by our troops, of compliments paid to them, and of German prisoners' surprise...
...place in the scheme of young men's activities. Yet what football there is, will undoubtedly be well worth watching. In the middle ages the CRIMSON players used to shudder at the Eli menace. Today "the informals," those loyal survivors of the sport in the University, are facing a foe more formidable than the Bulldog in his halcyon days. Whereas "All American" elevens have in the past been mythical, they may in the near future be actual organizations. Each military cantonment plans to have its team...
...wild-eyed son of Japhet with a sharp goad and a rebel yell. The goad tickled the elephant's hide, the rebel yell tickled his musical sensibilities. He became imbued with the spirit of conquest and charged like a young Juggernaut or a Woolworth tower on wheels against the foe...
...selected, condemnation of the favoritism shown will rise to damnation. And it is a further reasonable supposition that should those officers, having undertaken with their men the defense of a portion of the battle line, by some singular feat of courage or skill force the retirement of the foe which opposes them, the Germans will then be accused of having conspired with the Government, the War Department and fate to advance the honor of these hundred and thirty men, over more deserving men who have failed of everything...