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...more brilliantly carried it to execution; wherever he has been he has achieved triumph, by studying not only the physical factors before him, but also the morale of his troops. On three occasions in particular has he achieved decisive success. The first was the Battle of la Fere Champenoise, in the centre of front on the Marne, where against overwhelming odds he rearranged his front, cutting into the flank of his opponents and provoking the general retreat that carried back the Germans to the line of the Aisne; the second occurred at the first battle of Ypres, where he coordinated...
...unexpected and wanders into that ever dangerous political field. "Them is harsh words", editor; as "Tommy" says, as the Boche bomb lies at a distance unexploded "there might be something in it', but wouldn't it be a little more like "the thing" to figure that "c'est la guerre." Since the war started Lloyd George has shipped all London's red tape to "blighty" or as that Guy Empey might say, "west"; south would be more to the correct atmospheric direction. One half of the classes are at war and probably the situation is a case of shipping...
...Company K: F. M. Carey, E. A. Dawling, W. Z. Foster, W. B. Harvey, A. L. Hench, P. E. James, H. R. La Barte, R. W. Monks, T. W. Orr, R. A. Patterson, D. T. Schwartz, E. L. Taylor, O. S. Wagner...
Once again Columbia comes before the world in an unenviable light. In this morning's paper we read of the expulsion of Professors Cattell and Dana from that university for holding pacifist views (oh, la belle raison!). Some of us still hold to the belief (is it so unreasonable?) that a professor dissenting from the majority opinion respecting the governmental war policy is not thereby disqualified from teaching psychology or comparative literature. The Columbia Faculty, however, take the opposite view and apparently agree with the Imperial German Government that political orthodoxy is the test of intellectual capacity. Indeed one might...
...fourth course will be by H. Charles Woods, F.R.G.S., author of "The Danger Zone of Europe," "La Turquie et ses Voisins," etc., late Military Diplomatic Correspondent of the London Evening News, on "War and Diplomacy in the Balkans." It also includes eight lectues: 1. The Near East before the Great War. 2. The Near East in the Great War. 3. The Danube to the Egean and the Adriatic to the Bosphorus. 4. The Baghdad Railway in the War. 5. The Dardanelles. 6. Saloniki. 7. Constantinople. 8. Mesopotamia. The Future of the Balkans. This last series will be held on Wednesdays...