Word: credited
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...article recently published in the "Boston Globe," the Faculty of the University was rather bitterly criticized for their alleged refusal to give academic credit to those men who entered the service. The boys "skipped their classes without even saying good-bye to their professors" and now the wicked Faculty refuses to grant them recognition of the education gained in the "world of men." Such action is "unthinkable," according to the "Globe...
...there is one field in which credit is due, namely, Military Science. If the Faculty were in this subject to give credit based upon the length of service of the man in question, we are sure that every undergraduate would be satisfied...
...LeRoy de Chaumont, father of the young gentleman who will have the honor of waiting on you with this, was the first in France who gave us credit, and before the court showed us any countenance, trusted us with 2,000 barrels of gun powder, . . . . which for want of due returns, they being of great amount, has finally much distressed him in his circumstances...
...committee recommended to the Board of Overseers at its meeting held in the afternoon, the resumption of military instruction and discussed the possibility of giving credit toward a degree, with perhaps a degree "honoris causa," to men who have been in the United States or Allied Service. These matters will be brought to the consideration of the Faculty and to the further attention of the Board of Overseers at its next meeting...
...list of 63 American "Aces", aviators who have downed five or more enemy aeroplanes, recently published by the War Department, seven are University men. The ranking man of Harvard's "Aces" is Lieutenant D. E. Putnam '20, of Newton, who, before his credit. Captains Hamilton Coolidge '19, of Boston, who was killed in action, and Douglas Campbell '17, of Mt. Hamilton, Cal., have respectively eight and six victories credited to them...