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Hopkins entered the Army Aviation School at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in September, 1917, and was sent to Foggia, Italy, where he received his commission after seven months' training. From Foggia he went to Vendome, France, for further training and later to Clermont-Ferrard for practice in bombing and formation flying. At the completion of his training he was sent as a bombing pilot to the 96th Aero Squadron, which has been cited for bravery. He entered active service at the front in August...
...foremost philosophers of the present time, being chiefly known for the philosophy embodied in his "Creative Evolution," published in 1907. He has held the position of Professor at the College de France since 1900, being appointed there after long experience at the Lycee d'Angers, Lycee de Clermont, College Rollin, Lycee Henri IV, and the Ecolo Normale supericure. He is at present an officer of the Legion of Honor...
...Frenchman and a Parisian, a bourgeois of Paris, we continually find this vein running through all his work. Like so many other great writers he was a bourgeois, his father being "tapisseir du roi." His parents, being ambitious for their son, sent him to the College of Clermont; but he disappointed their hopes, and at the age of twenty-one took to the stage-a profession at this time of extreme ill repute. Alone in the world, his first efforts at Paris failed, and he was obliged to go into the country at the head of a wandering band...
...Yale and Princeton hockey teams are to play a series of three games at the Clermont Avenue Rink, Brooklyn, next month. No date has been definitely set for the first game yet, but probably it will...
...representatives of the class of 1889, Harvard college, wish to give public expression to the sincere sorrow which the death of Clermont L. de Peyster has caused among his classmates...