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...spite of solemn promises Germany has torpedoed more Spanish ships in the last few weeks than in the whole previous period of the war, finally forcing out of office a cabinet at Madrid which was doing its best to remain neutral. Germany is picking a quarrel with Denmark for interning the prize crew of a captured Spanish steamship stranded off the Danish coast. Germany seizes the Aland Islands, which formerly belonged to Sweden and which command the northern entrance to the port of Stockholm and the exit from the Gulf of Bothnia, through which the largest part of Sweden...
Plans are being negotiated by the officers of the American University Union and a committee of professors of the University of Paris to commemorate the entrance of the American college into the war by a solemn festival to be held in the large amphitheatre of the Sorbonne on February 24. This affair is only one of the many manifestations of French interest in the new institution...
...pause once a year in the midst of our daily routine to pay respect to the memory of the founder of our University. The exercises are simple and solemn, befitting the character they honor. But this year an added significance is attached to the celebration, a deeper meaning, as two battalions of the Training Corps are taking part. The spirit of duty, which has formed the most cherished tradition of our college life will be shown not in words, but in the shape of living accomplishment. The University will prove once more that after the lapse of three centuries...
This year Thanksgiving Day will be a solemn time. We have been asked to make it a day of fasting rather than a day of feasting. With many of us this will be making a virtue of necessity; but few thoughtful people will feel disposed to make the day one of hilarity. This is a grim and gray time, like the month in which Thanksgiving Day occurs. The constant sense of the country being at war is a drain on the Nation's spiritual forces, and such an anniversary is a time to renew those forces from which a people...
This may be all very well for a nation that respects its treaty obligations, but how about Germany, whose most solemn pledges are only "scraps of paper" when it pleases her to violate them? Does any sane person think for a moment that she would give us a "reasoned declaration" if she wanted to strike first? Boston Post...