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There was only one fatality among the navy men from the College. In the army, the death rate appeared highest among second lieutenants. Hazard Stevens '64, with the rank of brevet brigadier-general, held the highest position among those who were undergraduates at the outbreak of the war. Army. RANK FATALITIES Privates, 91 13 Corporals, 4 0 Sergeants, 8 3 2d Lieutenants, 25 10 1st Lieutenants, 81 18 Brevet Captains, 2 0 Captains, 103 13 Brevet Majors, 6 0 Majors, 27 3 Brevet Lieut.-Col., 1 0 Lieut.-Cols., 18 4 Brevet Colonels, 3 0 Colonels, 26 7 Brevet Brig...
...will last and that kind needs force behind it, Military training creates that force and the Harvard gentlemen who have gone to Washington to urge this upon the authorities are doing a patriotic thing. That Harvard should lead is eminently proper and to be expected. CHARLES L. PEIRSON '59, Brevet Brigadier-General...
...course is intensive, only four months being required to turn out a finished aeroplane operator. The sum expended for the education of each man is about $1200, exclusive of board and lodging. The recruit wins a military brevet after spending twenty or thirty hours in the air, fifteen minutes each morning and fifteen minutes each morning and fifteen in the afternoon, according to weather. There are eight classes or grades from one to another of which the candidate progresses as his ability to manipulate the aircraft develops...
...attempted in the next stage of development, which calls for a Caudron biplane or a Bleriot monoplane. A height of 2000 feet is attained. Next the candidate takes an 80-horsepower model and flies as far and as high as he wishes. He is now ready for his brevet, for which he must undergo three tests: first, stay an hour at a height of 6500 feet with self-registering barograph; second, make a triangular trip of 130 miles inside of 48 hours; third, make a straight flight 100 miles and back in 24 hours with only one stop allowed each...
...north end of the bridge, a tablet on the right hand column bears the following dedication, which explains the use of the scholar and soldier symbols: "This bridge was built in memory of Nicholas Longworth Anderson, graduate of Harvard College in the class of 1858; Adjutant-Colonel, Brevet-Brigadier and Major-General of volunteers in the Civil War. To a father by a son." Above this tablet, on the north side is the eagle, the soldier's habit, shield, helmet and banner all welded in bronze forms. On the opposite side of the column is a similar symbol composed...