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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Prussian Guard and beat them back with terrific losses. It was at Ypres in April, 1915, that the First Canadian Division beat off the first gas attack and, in the words of General French, "saved the situation". Behind the city, under a grove of Canadian maples, lie six thousand of Canada's bravest sons, her first contribution in the Great War to the defence of the mother country. And now on the slopes about the shell-torn city stand England's own sons, gathered in the divisions of England's volunteer and conscript army. Commanders may debate the strategic value...
...year ago our Army consisted of 9,524 officers and 202,510 enlisted men; it now numbers 123,800 officers, and 1,529,000 enlisted men. Several hundred thousand of these are now in Europe taking part in the greatest battle in history. Our Ordnance Department is now spending about $13,000,000 a day, which is just about the amount it annually expended in peace times. Our production of rifles is now 11,550 a week, against 2,500 a wek in September, 1917. To feed our Army 3,000 cattle must be slaughtered every morning...
...evening, finally won from the class of 1919 in the day's scoring, are now within $2,100 of realizing their quota, which is over one-third of that of the College. Their total subscription yesterday was $5,050. Both of the other two classes still have several thousand dollars to collect before fulfilling their obligations...
...time functions. No longer can we walk in that spacious hall to pick up the Kalamazoo News. No longer can we loll about in leather chairs, smoking or studying art from historic Harvard portraits. The Living Room is a changed place. Three times a day one thousand men rush in for sustenance and it seems that more than one thousand dark figures in white coats rush about providing this sustenance...
...settling of the problem of the ages can't be done in the twinkling of an eye--not even the legal eye. I, for one, have no such ambitions, even if I were to live and try for 'a thousand years. But though the aim be only to hint at a useful tendency--that, too, takes a certain amount of effort and patience. That is why I feel the need of coming back to the attack, on that little matter of the aims of education...