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First Lieutenant Albert Edgar Angier '20 of Waban, Mass., who was killed in action in September, 1918, has been awarded the Distinguished Service Cross, posthumously, for extraordinary heroism on the field of battle. After leaving College to enter the service, he was elected a Business Editor of the CRIMSON and was first sergeant of Co. A of the R.O.T.C. in the fall of 1917. In January, 1918 he entered the Third Officers' Training Camp at Yaphank and was sent overseas for further training before receiving his commission as 2nd lieutenant. Shortly before his death, he was promoted to 1st lieutenant...
...February issue of the "Bookman" is published an article entitled "Detestable Words." This gives a few examples of words which the editor despises. According to the "Bookman," "sense" appears as a verb in every form from the "father sensed his son's abstraction" to the "peeling infant sensed the coming of the succulent milk-bottle." "Poignant" is on the blacklist because of its downright stupidity, "stipend" because of its oily politician sound. "Remuneration" is a foolishly long latinized word, and "dainty" and "refined" are classed as belonging to the "chewing gum" variety...
...demands merged the student and the soldier into a single individual. Briefly, Syracuse is giving academic credit to commissioned officers, while returning non-coms and privates receive no credit at all for their army work. For bitterly attacking such an indefensible course by the college authorities a student editor of the "Daily Orange" was expelled with an official farewell of scurrilous epithets...
Professor Pickering has received the degrees of LL.D., Ph.D., D. Sc., and L. H. D. from numerous universities. He has been honored by the scientific societies of many European countries, and was author and editor of a large number of scientific books...
...School are rapidly assuming a before the war aspect. There will be a reception for all students in the School at Phillips Brooks House tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock. President Eliot, Professor Joseph Warren, Dean Roscoe Pound, H. H. Hoppe 3L., and G. E. Osborne 3L., editor of the Law Review and president of the Law School Society, will speak. The usual refreshments will be served...