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Other posters outline the pension system and separation allowances, given to support those left at home. A final broadside quotes the Prime Minister's Guild Hall speech: "We shall not sheathe the sword . . . until the military domination of Prussia is finally destroyed...
...large sums of money have been given to aid their work. But they give the impression of seeing the end more clearly than the means, and appear to think that war can be forever drowned out by a flood of talk, that the pen can grind the sword into a plowshare. Some pacifists speak as if any alternate were always preferable to war; and yet very few of them would carry the principle of non-resistance so far as to reduce this country to the condition of china, a prey to the foreign spoiler. Between national subjection or humiliation...
...cavalry called the Lancers. Then a procession is formed and all march to Sanders Theatre where as many as possible crowd in. The meeting is called to order according to the ancient custom by the Sheriff of Middlesex County, who pounds on the floor with the scabbord of his sword and shouts, "Oyez, Oyez, Oyez"--the ancient form for calling a court to order. Then after the prayer the University Marshal calls on four or five candidates for degrees for their "parts." After a short intermission the degrees are confered by the President during a very impressive service...
...first act of "Siegfried" discovers Mime at work at his forge, making a sword for the young hero, who enters with a young bear. He asks Mime for his new sword, which he immediately shatters at the anvil, with many words of abuse. Finally Siegfried gets the whole story of his parentage, and leaves with orders to make a sword of the fragments which Sieglinde had given him. Mime is in despair, for he has tried to do this many times without success. At this juncture Wotan enters, disguised as a wanderer. He seeks news of Siegfried, and asks Mime...
...novel (repeated for two public performances); "Home, Sweet Home," by Miss Violet B. Robinson; "The Romance of the Rose," by Sam Hume and T. M. Spellman, 2d, '13; "Maitre Patelin," a revival of the old French farce; "The Call of the Mountain," by E. C. Ranck '12; The Revesby Sword Play; "The Chimes," by Miss Elizabeth McFadden; "Yvon, the Daring," by Anna S. MacDonald; "His Womentolk," by Miss Abby Merchant; "The Only Girl in Sight," by Miss Caroline Budd; "In For Himself," by M. W. Reed...