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...Just as the spirits of their dead heroes watching over them urged on the French soldiers at the Battle of the Marne to hurl back the invading hordes, so must the spirits of our glorious heroes who faced a splendid and cruel death unflinchingly, lead us to consecrate our all for the Allied Cause," said Lieutenant Morize in his Memorial Day address in Sanders Theatre yesterday noon. The exercises, which were under the auspices of the University Memorial Society, and over which Major Henry L. Higginson '55 presided, centered about the presentation by the Society of a tablet containing...
...fell on the battlefields of Gettysburg and Antietam, and on each May 30 we are newly thrilled by the memory of those men who fought for Union and Democracy between 1861 and 1865. The pride and the thrill will be many, many times greater tomorrow when we celebrate the glorious deaths of our classmates and friends...
During the extent of the present conflict it is entirely fitting and proper that we should discuss and constructively criticize all important and many unimportant issues. Free speech is a glorious privilege, but the more we talk the more we must read. For the college man, it is a crime to be uninformed, a dark sin to be misinformed. Brains will win the war! Don't waste yours. The Pennsylvanian...
...from the Germans, the British were driving the enemy at Arras, while revolutionized Russia was hopefully expected to recover from her bribed lethargy of 1916. Our impetuous publicist, Mr. J. M. Beck, was bewailing the fact that our late entrance into the war forbade our participation in anything more glorious than a triumphal march of occupation. For 1918 the outlook is changed. We see Russia reduced to impotence and the allied armies on the west front evacuating the positions won at so much cost in 1916 and 1917. We, know now that every combatant regiment overseas or training at home...
...more unassuming, a little more willing to share the limelight with a worthy partner, to subordinate our selves to the Cause. The individual soldiers are not to be blamed. The fault lies deeper yet. It is with the American public at home who insist upon regarding war as a glorious sport at which our athletes are in nature bound to win. Parade after parade, motion pictures, books, and pamphlets confirm it. Our newspapers describe in four-inch headlines of alternated red and black how five "Yanks" have captured a German patrol of twenty, while on page five, under a flaring...