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Article: World peace and the college: the presidential address.(PERSPECTIVES)
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- Liberal Education
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- June 22, 2004
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In 1930, the World War of 1914-1918 was only twelve years past. The methods of modern warfare that shocked all participants included use of chemicals and airplanes as weapons, dramatically changing how war was fought. Reprinted from the Bulletin, 1930.
Im Westen nichts Neues. This might have been a military dispatch from General Von Hindenburgh to Kaiser Wilhelm in the summer of 1918. In reality it is the title of an epochal book. The English translation is having a remarkable sale under the title of All Quiet on the Western Front.
Remarque, the author, recounts in a most vivid manner the life of a German common soldier during the World War. The American ...