Word: abroad
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Wallace C. Sabine, Hollis Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy. He will speak in the New Lecture Hall tomorrow evening at 8.15 o'clock, taking as his subject, "Aviation and the War." Professor Sabine was away all last year on leave of absence and he spend the entire time abroad doing scientific work connected with the war, in this way gaining an unusual firsthand knowledge of conditions in the warring countries, especially in England, France and Italy...
...will be given next Wednesday evening at 8.15 o'clock. Professor Wallace C. Sabine, Hollis Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, and University Exchange Professor with France last year, will speak on the subject: "Aviation and the War." Professor Sabine was away all last year, spending the whole time abroad in scientific work connected with the war. In this way he has gained an unusual first-hand knowledge of conditions in England, France and Italy...
...squadron has benefited us as well as France. The increase in number of experienced aces is not as significant as the bond created between two allies. Furtherance of this union has been a noteworthy result. Active participation of American aviators, and their presence abroad were forerunners of later intervention. The way was made ready for the entrance of the coming soldiers. The French people must have perceived for some time that they had friends across the ocean, that not all were too proud to fight. Hope of our entry was kept alive. The fact can not be disguised...
...addresses his audience tomorrow at the New Lecture Hall the attendance must be thoroughly representative of the University. The room could be crowded easily, because there are thousands of people outside of Harvard who want to hear Dr. Mott tell of his experiences in Y. M. C. A. work abroad. Tomorrow, however, members alone will mean nothing. The University must be there. Dr. Mott can always address non-collegiate audiences; his talk here is the only one of its kind to be given,--he is to speak at this University and none other. The assembly then must...
...What the Cercle Francais has in recent years not been able to accomplish for various reasons, will now be done by this room under the supervision of the French Department. Daily the value of a knowledge of French is becoming more apparent; of the first officers chosen for service abroad nearly all knew French, and this it was which, other things being equal, determined their selection. In the future the same will doubtless hold true. Thus any man who for sees a possibility, however slight, of his entering active service should begin early to train himself in this fundamental part...