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...trip involved several incidental features which were matters of great personal interest. In particular I was impressed with Siberia. Instead of finding it a barren land inhabited by political exiles, with occasional mastodons embedded in ice, we found it to be a land of great beauty and promise and with immense opportunities for young Americans. This is also true of European Russia. While there are stretches of desert land near Manchuria, there are in the centre of the country enormous areas of fertile land already yielding excellent crops of wheat and rye. The world's food supply could be raised...
...purpose of the investigation of the War Department by the Senate Military Affairs Committee does not, seek to embarrass particular people or the take political revenge on anyone. Consequently we are surprised that so much flippant hinting and so many sly finger-pointings should have appeared in the American press. We are glad that the investigation will be held; it will be a means of prosecuting thin war with greater success. But rejoicing because political opponents are to be publicly scored is out of place at this time. In any crisis, national unity is preserved with difficulty. This task becomes...
...that struggle. No soldier in France has more carefully mastered the theory of war nor 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...
...Paul's Society will hold a meeting this evening in the rooms of the Society in Phillips Brooks House at 7 o'clock. The meeting tonight will be the first of a series of discussion groups on the general subject of "The Prayer Book." The particular subject for this evening will be "The Lord's Prayer" and the discussion will be led by Reverend J. S. Moses. The meeting is open to all members of the University...
...past months. It may eventually prove a cloud with a silver lining if the newly formed Allied War Committee, which will have supreme authority on all the fronts, succeeds in combining the disconnected activities of the many allied armies into one efficient and effective plan of action; if the particular aims of each nation are subordinated to the greater end--the complete defeat of the Hohenzollerns...