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...purpose of this move is not only to provide an enduring memorial for the 127 Field Service men who lost their lives in the war, but to perpetuate among future generations of French and American youth the mutual understanding and fraternity which marked Franco-American relations during the World War. To this end, an organization called the American Field Service Fellowships for French Universities, embracing the former Society for American Fellowships in French Universities, has been established. This organization proposes to award fellowships for advance study in France to students selected from American colleges, university and technical establishments, and occasional...
...Paris on Saturday evening. Robert Woods Bliss '00, Secretary of the American Embassy acted as chairman. Dean LeBaron R. Briggs '75, now Exchange Professor at the University of Paris, spoke on America's role in the war, and Dean Charles H. Haskins made an address on the development of Franco-American friendship. Colonel J. P. Azan, former instructor in Military Science and Tactics at the University also spoke on the later subject...
...past few days upon three more men from the University, Major Ralph R. Fitch '03, M.D., First Lieutenant A. W. Gardner '18, and G. H. Dorr '21. Major Fitch was made a knight of the Legion of Honor for distinguished service in connection with the establishment of the Franco-American auxiliary hospital at St. Valery-en-Caux...
...Myron T. Herrick, the United States ambassador. They also visited the home of Fernald Baldensterger, the newly appointed French exchange professor to Harvard. A series of dinners were given in President Lowell's honor by James H. Hyde, director of the University of Paris, the Harvard Club, and the Franco-American Committee, at which Premier Barthou and other members of the cabinet and distinguished scholars of France were present...
Baron de Couberlin, president of the Franco-American Union, has founded two medals for students at Harvard and Johns Hopkins. The medals will be given annually, and will bear the names of De Tocqueville and Pasteur. The subjects to be treated in the competition for the medals relate to contemporary France...