Word: americans
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...which John Harvard was graduated, will extend its hospitality to members of the University on military service abroad. A letter received by President Lowell from Master P. Giles of the English university, states that arrangements are being made at many of the colleges of England to provide for the American officers who desire to spend some part of their short leaves at Cambridge and Oxford. "We are proposing in Emmanuel," the letter says, "to set apart for the use of American officers six sets of rooms, and if it can be managed, we should like--and it also seems historically...
...There is a committee in the University, of which Dr. Hazeltine--your graduate and our Fellow--is the secretary, and we hope this committee will be constantly in touch with the authorities regulating the leave of American officers in France. If, however, you think it desirable that the Harvard people should have a first preference for Emmanuel, it might be possible to make this known amongst the officers from Harvard...
According to a cablegram received by relatives yesterday, Lieutenant William Hague '04, of Grass Valley, Cal., has died of pneumonia while serving as a member of the American Expeditionary Force in France. Lieutenant Hague embarked for the front only six weeks ago with the 116th Regiment of Engineers. Before entering military service he was an engineer of the North Star Mines in his native state...
...surprise, but the use, or abuse, of course, had to be met. The first thing to do was to develop a means of defence, and this has been done and is still being done in the construction and improvement of gas masks of various types. Hundreds of American chemists have been busily employed for many months in attacking these problems and they have already effected striking improvements in the gas masks and have increased their effectiveness almost ten-fold. Then there is the problem of defence against the use of incendiary mixtures and the allied problem of their offensive employment...
...needed, as well as men for the distance runs. Relay candidates are especially in demand, as informal teams to represent the University will be entered in the B. A. A. meet in Mechanics Building on February 2, and probably in the meets which are contemplated by the Irish-American Athletic Association and the Lawrence Light Guards, as well as the various military teams...