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There are important signs that the vast confusion and many mistakes of the early months of our participation in the war have been replaced by the efficiency of a more orderly administration. The shipping industry is moving forward and is now turning out vessels at a rapid rate. A fair investigation assures a proper reconstruction of aircraft production. We now have 700,000 men in France, with prospects of a million by July, and a million and a half by December. The latest draft move will effectively divert labor into productive channels. Our finances are good and our people have...
...appointed time the two companies of infantry will be drawn up in reserve on the road west of the Fresh Pond Reservation, Captain F. Parkman '19 commanding the first and Captain A. H. Bright '19 the second company. They will move up on the system of trenches above Command Post Ridge, assumed to be hastily built, where they will relieve a battalion, occupy the first line and attack at once in two waves in a direction west-east...
...next year has been determined. Until the end of this college year he will remain in the Varsity Club, where the offices of the Economies Department, formerly in Dane Hall, are also located. Captain Parker, commandant of the Ensign School of the First Naval District, who was forced to move on account of the fire, will continue to occupy his present offices in Wadsworth House until the end of the second session, of the Ensign School...
...first move would be to save the military stores at Vladivostok, for at this port vast amounts of munitions and other war necessities which were intended for Russia have been accumulating. In all probability the Japs will do no more than push a comparatively short distance into Siberia, possibly to a point just north of Manchuria, and there set up a line of defences as a barrier against any eastward movement on the part of Germany. With the absolute lack of any stability in Russia and the consequent difficulty of moving troops, it would be physically impossible for forces...
...advantage for our part. We are fighting for the very right of all peoples to decide the political fate of the territory they occupy. When the war is ended we can not have it said that we sanctioned the invasion of a second Belgium. We can only oppose a move which bears all the marks of selfish aggression and which impugns the honor of our purpose...