Word: americans
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...will be difficult at the University to become accustomed to the loss of Robert Bacon. We mourn him not only as a former editor and a former Harvard man, but also as a great American who has passed from among...
Under the auspices of the American Ambulance Field Drivers Association, a reunion dinner for all members of the American Field Service who served during the war, will be held at the Hotel Somerset, Boston, on Friday evening, June 6 at 7 o'clock. The Association was tentatively formed in Boston in 1917 with a view to making it a permanent organization, and of keeping former Field Service Volunteers in touch with one another...
...believe, this initial donation is but the first step in a drive for richer and more profitable results in education, it will tend toward the eventual raising of the whole standard of American education,' and of the esteem in which. American schoolmasters and instructors are held. Certainly thanks are due for this generous appropriation to Mr. John D. Rockefeller and the General Educational Board of which he is chairman, from all college men who are interested in the broad subject of American culture...
...immediate practical importance is accomplished, surely a great world movement for student co-operation will have been launched, and the very launching, will have been more than worth while. When M. Jean Fuielle, General Secretary of the organization, visits Cambridge in the course of his projected tour of American colleges and universities, we are sure that Harvard men will give his plans for the closer international co-operation of college students their warmest support...
...news that Harry Hawker and his navigator Grieve, the daring pair who tried to be the first to cross the Atlantic by airplane, are safe again on English soil and were royally feted on their arrival last night in London cannot fail to appeal to the American imagination as much as to the British. A man who, unlike our more cautious United States Navy filers, "took all the chances" in a daredevil attempt to do what many air-men considered next to impossible, impressed American and British sportsmanship to the same high degree. From the moment of Hawker's sensational...