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Langdon Warner '03 will lecture at 8.15 Friday evening, in Jordan Hall, on the subject: "The Czecho-Slovak Progress Across Siberia." He was sent by the government to investigate conditions in Siberia at first-hand, and for eight months, beginning in the fall of 1917, he studied conditions along the Trans-Siberian Railway from Vladivostock to Simau in European Russia; meeting in this way, Bolsheviki, representatives of the Siberian Government, and officers of the Czecho-Slovak Army...
...evening sessions men who have had special opportunities of gaining first-hand knowledge of the possibilities afforded by missionary work will be brought to the Conference to present different phases of the task of Christianizing the world...
...Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, and University Exchange Professor with France last year, will speak on the subject: "Aviation and the War." Professor Sabine was away all last year, spending the whole time abroad in scientific work connected with the war. In this way he has gained an unusual first-hand knowledge of conditions in England, France and Italy...
...hearing an address by Dr. John R. Mott, LL. D., in the New Lecture Hall this evening at 6.45 o'clock. Dr. Mott, who will speak on the subject, "War Conditions in Russia and Europe," is preeminently fitted to deliver such a war lecture because he probably possesses more first-hand knowledge of the whole complex European situation than any other man in the country...
Mark Antony de Wolfe Howe '87, editor of the Alumni Bulletin, has a book on "The Harvard Volunteers in Europe: Personal Records of Experience." First-hand information concerning the present European war is preserved in these extracts from diaries, journals, and letters. The collection covers work in the trenches, in Serbia, with the ambulance corps, hospital units, the distributing service, the Foreign Legion, and the aviation corps. The names of more than 400 University men enlisted in the conflict are given as an appendix...