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Word has been received of the death of Lieutenant Briggs Kilburn Adams '17, of Montclair, N. J., a member of the Royal Flying Corps, who died in a Red Cross hospital from wounds received in action on the Western Front last week...
Adams, who graduated from College last spring, joined the Royal Flying Corps at Toronto, Canada, a few days after Commencement. He was commissioned a second lieutenant last December, and was sent to England at once. A few weeks later he was put on active service on the Western Front. During the summer of 1916, Adams served as a Red Cross ambulance driver...
...seen their Thunder Bird, their holy and mystic eagle, in the skies, and he, too, was followed by countless sweeping hosts. And much nearer home, the Winged Victory was seen marching athwart the skies the other night, a flaming sword in her hand, and advancing in triumph from the western to the eastern horizon--betokening the overcoming of the Germans by the aid of America. Scarcely a day passes without the record of some warlike and victorious sign...
...Black Sea to the very borders of Persia. Rumania a vassal of Austria, Bulgaria a willing tool, and vast territories wrung from Russia complete a brief but overwhelming accomplishment. The German tide, which we believed to be receding, has reached its highest flood. The Allies futilely hammer on the Western Front and their enemies reap whole nations in a seemingly irresistible advance. The world, as seen from our shores, presents a dark picture indeed...
When we consider all possible advantages accruing from an Eastern advance into Russia and balance them against the inevitable harm which must certainly be its result, we can find no just reason for an American approval of the step. The need of concentrating all our energies upon the Western Front, and the avoidance of steps which may lead to irreparable stains upon the sublimity of our cause must guide our nation in the consideration of this harmful and ill-timed proposal...