Word: americans
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...following record of Harvard men in the American Field (Ambulance) Service has been prepared by J. H. Hyde '98, of Paris, and published in the current Alumni Bulletin: There were 348 Harvard men, volunteers, in the American Field Service, prior to its being taken over by the United States Army...
...many an American college the undergraduate seems to have experienced a change of heart upon several matters. He has even discovered, much more generally than he had four years ago, a feeling of interest in questions of broad public moment. In subjects touching his personal future he has found certain issues of more vital concern than the mastery of the latest step in the fox-trot. It is easy to trace the sequence of cause and effect which has been at work here: The boys in our colleges have seen hundreds of their fellows go forth to an active share...
Letters from France recently received in Boston lay much emphasis on an American agency that is doing a far-reaching work for good among our boys overseas--the American University Union, which has taken possession of the Royal Palace Hotel in Paris. And it should be made plain that there are no unhappy class distinctions in the work in question, for the headquarters and bureau are maintained "for the friends" of our college boys in France, as well as for the boys themselves. The work was inevitable from the first, in view of the thousands of young American collegians, alumni...
...branch in London and plans to have others in parts of France. It plans to keep up a complete directory of college men in France, so that information may be available on the shortest notice. It is a clearing house for mail, a reading room with all leading American newspapers and magazines, and a purchasing and forwarding agent for members in any part of France. The work and the worth of the Union, performing so valuable a service for thousands of Americans in France, will be the rallying cry of the all-college rally that will be held in Boston...
...least 50 of the leading colleges and universities in the United States, will be held in Boston the first part of next month. By the unanimous vote of the representatives of the institutions who are taking part in the event, the entire proceeds will be donated to the American University Union in Paris. The Harvard Alumni Association was a prominent originator of the rally, and will play a large part in making the plans for the meeting. Graduates and undergraduates of the University and of other leading colleges of the country may attend the meeting upon payment of a small...