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Lieutenant Lionel de Jersey Harvard '15, of the Grenadier Guards, is reported in the dispatches as having been killed in action in Flanders on March 30. Harvard, who is the second of his family to lay down his life for England, enlisted in 1915 immediately after receiving his degree, and was once wounded in his first year of service. Since then he has distinguished himself at Ypres and later at Cambral, where he commanded King's Company in the attack near Fontaine Notre Dame...
Recent dispatches from France report the decoration with the croix de guerre of Private Richard Van Wyck Buel '18, of Section 642 of the U.S.A. Ambulance Corps. Buel received the cross for bravery under fire in an engagement on the Aisne during the last week of February. He was sent to the front-line trenches, it is said, to rescue men suffering from an unusually severe gas attack, and was wounded by a German shell while in performance of his duty. He was awarded the medal while in the base hospital on March...
...Committee has been formed in Paris, under the name of Comite Nationale d'Etudes and composed of M. Hovelaque (Inspector of Public Instruction), M. de Lapradelle (Professor of Law), M. Lichtenberger (Professor of German Language and Literature, former French Exchange Professor at Harvard), and Professor J. H. Woods. The task of the Committee is to collect methodically all available information concerning the trend of public opinion in America, both for a better understanding in France of the American point of view, and for use by the French Foreign Office, War Office and other branches of Government. The Committee wants chiefly...
...Gordon Abbott, Mrs. Reginald Barclay, Mrs. Theodore G. Bremer, Mrs. George F. Brownell, Mrs. Joseph de Camp, Mrs. Philip Dexter, Mrs. G. H. Edgell, Mrs. F. G. Griswold, Mrs. R. H. Gross, Mrs. A. Lawrence Lowell, Mrs. Charles A. Morss, Mrs. E. P. Motley, Jr., Mrs. H. W. Munroe, Mrs. W. R. Odell, Mrs. Henry Parkman, Mrs. W. E. Quirin, Mrs. R. D. Sears, Mrs. Augustus Thorndike, Jr., Mrs. F. M. Warburg...
Word has also been received that Lieutenant H. B. Willis '12, a member of the Lafayette Escadrille, is a prisoner in Germany, being captured at Verdun in August, 1917. He went to France as a member of an American ambulance unit, in which capacity he received the Croix de Guerre. He later entered the French air service as a member of the Lafayette Escadrille...