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Richard Norton, son of the late Professor Charles Eliot Norton '46, was the founder of the Norton-Harjes Ambulance Service, which was the first American Unit to aid the allied armies in the great war. For nearly a year the only American uniforms known overseas were those of the Norton-Harjes Ambulance Service, and all that the French had to judge this country by was the work of the men in this unit. At that time, many undergraduates left the University in order to join Norton's corps and have since played an important part in the entire history...
Military Science has become an established course at Harvard, not as an aid to those who, because of their civil schooling were inevitably bound to become officers; but rather as a means of selecting the promising officer material from the unpromising, and of developing in each, regardless of his chances for a commission as many soldierly qualities as possible...
...proclamation of union has just been made of the Dodecanesian Islands with Greece, the inhabitants of which recently cabled the members of this University to support their claims for such a union. The cablegram appealed to students at all American and allied universities to aid the Dodecanesians in their efforts to be joined to Greece...
...American institutions. In the spring of that year, however, a regatta was to be held on the harbor and six enterprising University students, among them President Eliot, then an instructor in the University, secured a "shell" of rather ponderous bulk and steered by the bow oar with the aid of a foot attachment. On the day of the regatta the Harvard oarsmen discovered that fourteen crews were entered in the race and after a consultation they decided that some sort of insignia must be worn for the purpose of distinguishing the Harvard boat from the thirteen others. The upshot...
...having voted to levy on all students entering next fall and thereafter a charge of $240 a year. This represents an increase of $40 in the Sheffield Scientific School and of $80 in the college itself. An effort will be made to help deserving and poor students with scholarship aid...