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...Paper" shows the treaty of 1839 guaranteeing the independence and neutrality, of Belgium signed by both British and Prussian representatives. "Follow Me," showing a soldier leaving for the front; "Remember Belgium," picturing that country in flames and suggesting the possibility of Britain's finding herself in a similar plight; and "There is a place for you in this line, will you fill it?" showing a gap in the ranks, are some of the most striking designs. Lord Kitchener's famous call for volunteers "More men and still more until the enemy is crushed" is depicted on another poster...
...sick, the wounded. Much more, however, is still needed, for, greater yet than the treasure outpoured so freely, is the mighty and ever-growing need. In Belgium a whole population is barely being saved from sheer starvation; in northern France the wretched non-combatants are in as pitiful a plight; in Servia, disease of the most malignant and deadly character adds its destructive powers to lack of food and shelter; Poland, harried by the contending hosts, well nigh fails to make its lamentable condition known...
...true story--hurrying to the Boston Public Library by taxicab to secure a copy of a dollar and a half book which he is required to read by the following morning. Yet nearly every undergraduate, although his remedy may have differed, has been in much the same plight...
From Sganarelle's house the spectators are taken to the office of a hotel in Paris, in "L'Anglais Tel Qu'on lo Parle"--from the woes of the sighting Lucinde to the plight of the more energetic Miss Betty Hogson, daughter, but sorely hampered for lack of so much as one French word. An interpreter would serve him, but the hapless Hegson knows not one syllable of English. None the less he finally makes himself understood and his talk and translations are burlesque at its drollest...
...number of years. At present a student whose home is not near Cambridge, if taken ill, has either to stay in his room or go to the Cambridge Hospital. A great many students can ill afford to go to the Hospital during a long sickness. But the plight of one who is ill in his own room is no better. It is hard to get proper attention and nursing and impossible to get nourishing and appetizing food...