Word: americans
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...following is a letter written by a former editor of the CRIMSON, D. W. Rich '18, now in the aviation service in France, to a member of this year's Board. The letter is dated, "On active service with the American Expeditionary Force...
...have heard, I got in the way of a bit of shell last August and had a delightful time at Neuilly (the American Ambulance Hospital) for about a month. Then I applied for sick leave to England and spent a most interesting ten days across the Channel. It was my first visit to England, so I would have had a pretty splendid time anyway; but as an added attraction it was the open season for Gothas--the moonlight nights at the end of September...
Hugh Duffy is a coach of long experience and exceptional ability. His active career in professional baseball dates from 1887, when he played upon the Springfield, Salem and Lowell teams. Later he was with such teams as the famous Chicago Americans, of which "Pop" Anson was captain; the Boston Nationals, the Milwaukee team of the American Association, the Philadelphia Nationals, the Providence club, Chicago "White Sox" and finally he has been connected with the Portland nine of the New England League. Since 1904 Duffy has ceased actual playing and has managed several clubs, including the Philadelphia Nationals, Chicago "White...
Auguste Rodin's beautiful maxim, "Lenteur est beaute," manifestly is not a favorite with our present-day American universities. Just now the watchword with them is "Speed up the courses." To cite an example, in his annual report to the trustees of Boston University, Dr. Murlin, the president of that institution, advocates a general acceleration of the courses--and not only that; but an all-the-year-round session. Under Dr. Murlin's plan, which is devised for the benefit of busy young people who have something else in the world to do besides study, the instruction at a university...
...Craig '19, died on the Western front, July 16, 1917, from wounds received while serving in the American Ambulance Corps...