Word: foundering
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Memorial services will be held for the late Richard Norton '92 at Mt. Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, today at 12.30 o'clock. Mr. Norton died in Paris on August 2, 1918, of pneumonia. He has long been known as the founder of the Norton-Harjes Ambulance Service...
Richard Norton, son of the late Professor Charles Eliot Norton '46, was the founder of the Norton-Harjes Ambulance Service, which was the first American Unit to aid the allied armies in the great war. For nearly a year the only American uniforms known overseas were those of the Norton-Harjes Ambulance Service, and all that the French had to judge this country by was the work of the men in this unit. At that time, many undergraduates left the University in order to join Norton's corps and have since played an important part in the entire history...
...especially to be noted that the American headquarters at Cambridge are at Emmanuel College, whence came the founder of the University. The return of American students to the source from which sprang the first college in the United States, and under such auspices, is indeed, unparalleled in the annals of education...
...judges for the contest will be Professor E. Charlton Black, of Boston University, the Honorable Edward W. Quinn, Mayor of Cambridge, and Wendell McMahill, chairman of the Entertainment Council of New England for Army and Navy Cantonments. Dr. Francis Henry Wade, the founder of the speaking prizes, will make the awards...
...Francis Henry Wade, founder of the prize, will make the award. The judges will be Professor E. Charlton Black of Boston University, the Honorable Edward W. Quinn, Mayor of Cambridge, and Wendell McMahill, chairman of the Entertainment Council of New England for army and navy cantonments...