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Elliot Christopher Cowdin, a student in the University in 1906-1907, has been awarded the French medaille militaire, states an Associated Press cablegram from Paris. Cowdin was also cited for the second time in army orders for his brilliant aviation exploits as a member of the American Flying Corps. The citation says of Cowdin, who is now a first sergeant...
Norman Prince '08 has also been honored with another official citation by the French, it was stated at the home of his uncle, Dr. Morton Prince '75, in Boston, last evening. Prince has been a colleague of Cowdin's in the corps, and at one time they operated in company the same armored Nieuport machine. This latest citation, the news of which was just received by Dr. Prince, was caused by two articles on military aviation which were printed in the United States, and whose influence was considered valuable to the Allied cause...
...Servir" is a war drama in two acts, by Henri Lavedan, and "Edgar et sa Bonne," by Labiche, is a one-act farce. The "Servir" was first produced in Paris in 1913 at the Theatre Sarah Bernhardt, and, with the foremost of modern French actors, M. Gintry, in the chief role, was highly successful. It was written while the trouble between France and Morocco was still going on, and, very appropriately to the talk of today, it shows the struggle between a militarist father of the old school and a pacifist son with modern ideas. Although the play was composed...
This prize was founded in 1898 by Baron Pierre de Conbertin, in the form of a medal "to be awarded to the successful contestant in an annual debate; off a subject drawn from contemporary French politics...
Professor Maurice Caullery, of the University of Paris, will give the first of a series of public lectures in English on "French Education, with Consideration of the Opportunities for Foreign Students" in Emerson J this afternoon at 4.30 o'clock. The subject of this lecture, which will be illustrated by lantern slides, will be "The Universities and Particularly the University of Paris...