Word: americans
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...lieutenant in the second battalion of the Duke of Wellington's Riding Regiment, was so badly wounded during the opening engagements of the war, that he died of his injuries in a hospital on Nov. 4, 1914. He is believed to have been the first graduate of any American college to have been killed during the World...
Lieutenant Herbert Frederick Engelbrecht A.M. '18 died from poison gas at the Walter Reed Hospital, Washington, D. C., on December 3, 1918. He had been on duty at the American University Experimental Station. Engelbrecht was inducted June 28, 1918, and received his commission in October...
...cases where the nature of the studies makes the plan unnecessary, be given a general examination toward the close of their Senior year and shall be required to display at this examination a reasonable proficiency in some general field of college work. This is a new idea in American education, but it probably represents an important step in the right direction. Boston Herald...
...result of the preliminary trials for the France-American Oratorical Contest held in Sever Hall last Friday evening, six of the eighteen candidates have been selected who will debate publicly for the medal on May 9. The successful speakers who will appear in the finals are P. E. Belfatlo '21, H. C. Burr '22, W. A. Dencker '20, H. McFadden '21, F. R. Simpson '21, and H. Teplow '20. The contest is of especial interest because it is the first debate in French ever carried on in this country. The judges were Prof. Hawkins, Prof. L. J. A. Mercier...
...becomes increasingly clear each year that scholastic work in the University is not of a nature to arouse the passionate enthusiasm of a majority of the undergraduates. This state of affairs is not peculiar to Harvard,--it is typical of the entire American system of education...