Word: canada
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Every section of the United States and Canada has its chairmen and committees, and there are other divisional workers and directors for foreign lands. The general committee is composed of Harvard men all over the world, with Thomas W. Lamont '92, and Eliot Wadsworth '98, as joint and alternate chairmen, respectively; Edgar H. Wells '97, vice-chairman; John Price Jones '02, general manager, and Robert F. Duncan '12, secretary...
Inspiring and thrilling as is the record of American college men in the present world struggle, it is yet not so moving as that made by the colleges of our allies. The universities of Canada have sent forth a far greater proportion of their graduates than have the colleges and universities of this country, and a greater proportion of them have been killed. The University of Toronto, for instance, contributed about 5,400 men from students' bench and professors' chair, of whom 604 gave up their lives, or somewhat more than 10 per-cent. Similar contributions have been made...
...list commences with the name of George Williamson '05, of Montreal, Canada, who as a 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...
Seven foreign countries are represented, led by China with 9 men. Canada follows with 6, while Japan, Brazil, Bolivia, France, and Egypt have one each...
Besides the delegation from England a large number of men of letters will be present from Canada. Among them are Mr. Stephen Leacock, the humorist, Mr. Duncan Campbell Scott, the poet, and Sir Robert Alexander Falconer, President of the University of Toronto. The meeting is intended both as a memorial of the birth of James Russell Lowell, and as a celebration of the realization of his hopes for the Anglo-American entente cordiale...