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...Civil War began. With the first outbreak of hostilities Lee was offered command of the Federal forces about to invade the South. He refused, said he would never again bear arms except to defend Virginia. Therefore, he was soon commanding the Army of Northern Virginia, that "carried the rebellion on its bayonets...
Yesterday morning students in one of the largest courses in American history took part in an educational experiment new at least to most of the students concerned. With the era preceding the outbreak of the Civil War as the topic of the lecture, the professor offered a half hour's debate with two history instructors as the proponents of abolition and slavery. The two went at the subject and each other hammer and tongs, according to the purpose of the experiment--to reproduce as accurately as might be the debates of the '40's and '50's, portraying the prejudices...
Playing in Germany at the outbreak of the War, he was made a prisoner. He escaped and fought with the Allies, was recaptured when wounded, and kept in an Austrian hospital where he used to baffle his ward-mates by playing blindfold matches with all of them at the same time. This was mental vacuity for Alexander Alekhine; a few years later in Paris he played 28 expert in the same fashion, setting a World's record for such feats...
...certain that there are more unknown infantrymen with their feet on the laboratory firesteps of medical science than in any other field of endeavor in the world. Not only an outbreak approaches an epidemic does the public wonder how many nascent Black Plagues have been stamped out in a test tube...
...outbreak of the World War he was a Commander on the Wilmington. The following year he was assigned to duty at the Naval Academy, which post he left in 1918 to become District Commander at Brest, France. Later the same year he was sent as a U. S. representative to the Prisoner of War Conference at Berne, Switzerland...