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According to a letter from the artillery officer in charge of the covering fire during the engagement on the French from in which Allen Shortt '17 was reported to have been captured, he has been awarded the military cross for capturing a German machine gun. Shortt, who was attached to the machine gun section of the 59th Canadian battalion was also mentioned in several official dispatches for singular bravery in leading his platform across the so-called "No-Man-Land" into the German French where he captured practically single-handed, the enemy...
...wall. Here he built a shelter by leaning beams against the wall to protect him while he undermined its foundations. As fast as he made a breach in the wall he propped it with beams to keep it from tumbling on him as he worked. Finally he set fire to the beams and fled, leaving the wall to cave in as the supports burned away...
About 100 students were present at the annual "open house" at Phillips Brooks House on Christmas evening. The company gathered before the open fire in the parlor to enjoy one of the most entertaining programs ever given at these gatherings. After Professor George Herbert Palmer '64 read the story of Christ's birth from the Scriptures and the "Hymn" from Milton's "Ode on Nativity"; Miss Margaretta Josephene Penick, of the Emerson College of Oratory, rendered her interesting program entitled, "An Evening of Dialect." E. E. Dale 2G entertained the guests with a sketch of cowboy life...
...birth from the Scriptures, and the "Hymn" from Milton's "Ode on Nativity," at the annual "open house" entertainment at Phillips Brooks House on Christmas evening from 6 to 10 o'clock. All those men who remain in Cambridge during the recess are invited to gather before the fire to enjoy the interesting program which has been arranged for the occasion...
Phillips Brooks House will hold its annual "open house" entertainment for those who remain in Cambridge during the recess on Christmas evening from 6 to 10 o'clock. An old-fashioned Christmas entertainment before the open fire will be provided, and the usual apples, nuts, candy, doughnuts and cider will be served...