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...greater, and its dire famine far more incomprehensible. The very utmost producing power we may muster from our whole continent may well be needed before we have fulfilled that which we are called upon to do by our allies of Europe, and those small neutral nations which are stricken by a war in which they have no share nor control...
...country are manifesting an active interest in the work of the great war. Units are being organized for the American Ambulance Field Service, volunteers are being sent to do Y. M. C. A. work at the front, ambulances are being donated and funds raised for distribution in war-stricken Europe. These are only a few examples of the interest taken in the war by universities of America...
...people of Nidden are stricken with the plague. Only seven wives remain. These seek a welcome death on the dune. --Boston Traveler...
...unreal as reality on the stage, that this attempt at picturing life as it is, is simply burlesque. A Shakespeare could harmonize a drunken porters' scene with the rest of "Macbeth," but it is doubtful if even he could bring together with any measure of success a grief-stricken mother, whose son fails to return from battle, and a typical Broadway monologist...
Those of us who leave College this year look back with a faint smile, a smile even of regret, upon that sad period when large sums of money were extracted from scanty pockebooks, when active committees vied with one another in pursuing the poverty-stricken students, when the whole college glowed with enthusiasm over the vision of a new gymnasium...