Word: americans
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...exercise, the regiment will be formed into two new American companies under the command of Captains F. Parkman '19 and G. C. Barclay '19. At the appointed time the two companies will be drawn up on the road west of the Fresh Pond Reservation. They will move up to the system of trenches above Command Post Ridge and debouch in two waves to attack the enemy trenches. They will put into practice the latest methods of advancing from shell-hole to shell hole under fire as explained recently by Colonel Azan...
Western Reserve has announced a decision which may point the way to a precedent in American academic life far broader than any the university had in mind in passing its present resolve. As the order stands it is only designed to exclude from the university's college of arts and sciences all aliens of military age who claim exemption from military service on account of their alien status, and who have not applied for naturalization. As such, the faculty's action is purely a war measure, and even so is a matter of merit...
Many forms of recognition for the war-work of American college students have been proposed and adopted -- from the granting of academic degrees to the printing of special groups of names in commencement programs and college catalogues. The Bulletin has been in sympathy with the Harvard authorities in the position they have taken, that academic work is one thing and military service quite another, and that the same recognition is not appropriate to both. Far less formal than any of the usual tokens by which the colleges have expressed, or proposed to express, their appreciation of what their sons have...
...other colleges because they did not happen to think of it first. We do not undertake to suggest the precise method of making it applicable to the Harvard men in service; but the necessary machinery, utilizing perhaps the home addresses of men in service, perhaps the agency of the American University Union in Europe, perhaps both, does not seem to lie beyond the inventive power of an individual or group of men to whom the idea of giving to every Harvard fighter a tangible emblem of his university, to be carried into whatever danger, may appeal. Should it tall into...
Jerome Preston '19, of Lexington, has been awarded the Croix de Guerre by the French Government for conspicuous service on two occasions while under fire. Preston left college during his Sophomore year and was the first Lexington boy to enter the service in the war. He is with the American Ambulance Service and has been in France for 15 months...