Word: rhine
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Rhine and the Sarr," January...
...Anatomie of Abuses" (1583) that football was a "devilishe pastime," causing "brawling, murther, homicide, and great effusion of blood." Sir Thomas Elyot (1531), had called it "nothyng but beastely fury and extreme violence." But the only casualty in the scores of games played in France and in the Rhine country by the twice-heroes of the American Expeditionary Forces was a broken arm. The explanation is that the code framed by Walter Camp, Parke H. Davis, and their associates of the Rules Committee was respected in spirit and letter by the American soldiers. They always heeded the injunction that...
...principle of self determination. The Allies can not be accused of wanton aggression; the distribution of territory is well-balanced, no country receiving any possession to which it has not a right. In the Sarre Valley question, it is interesting to remember that Dean Haskins, as head of the Rhine Boundary Commission, played a prominent part. The question has at last been settled in a way to repair the wrongs which French coal fields suffered at the hands of Germany. In solving another bone of contention by the Danzig outlet, we understand Professor Lord offered able suggestions. It is highly...
...appointment of Professor Charles H. Haskins as a member of the Rhine Boundary Commission of the Peace Conference cannot but be hailed with satisfaction by those who have worked under him here. Professor Haskins is eminently fitted for his new work by years spent in an exhaustive study of the many European boundary disputes of mediaeval and modern times...
...Professor of Geology, Emeritus, will give explanations of the present situations of the battle fronts to all who wish to attend. These talks are given before the war maps on the main stair case of Widener. The maps show in detail all territory from the Belgian coast to the Rhine, and give the present fighting lines, the lines of the farthest advance of the Germans in 1914, and the lines in March and July of the present year...