Word: french
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...present time ninety-three French Croix de Guerre have been awarded to University men since 1914. Forty-four of these men have had their names inscribed on a parchment to President Lowell from A. P. Andrew '95, as having received their decorations while in the service of the Ambulance. Corps in Europe before the United States entered the war. Lovering Hill '10, a section leader in this service has received four citations for exceptional bravery since he was awarded his Croix de Guerre...
Four men have been decorated with the French Cross of the Legion of Honor. They are: A. P. Andrew '95, Norman Prince '08, R. H. Greeley '01, and R. Norton '92. Norman Prince had received in addition the Croix de Guerre and the Medaille Militaire before his death in France. C. W. Whittlesey '08, and G. Murtry '99, members of the "Lost Batallion" are the two men who have received the highest American honor, the Congressional Medal of Honor. They were decorated on the Boston Common by General Edwards in December...
...York Feb. 8. He will not decide upon the subject of his lectures until he reaches Paris, but his work will begin immediately on arrival and continue until June. No announcement has yet been made as to who will be the successor of Prof. Lucien Levy-Bruhi, the French exchange professor at Harvard, who recently resigned...
Professor Theodore Reinach of the Academie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, Lt.-Colonel in the French Army and Editor of the "Gazette des Beaux-Arts" will lecture in English on "The Part of France in the Revival of Ancient Greek Art" in the Fogg Art Museum this afternoon at 4.30. Professor Reinach is a member of a mission of the foremost French scholars recently arrived in this country in response to the requests of American universities to interpret to them the dominant elements of French culture. The lecture today will be open to the public...
...said, who have come under my observation, those from the Harvard and other college R. O. T. C.'s under the direction of foreign officers, show themselves far superior to the officers trained only in the Government camps. The men who had studied and worked in organizations directly under French or British officers had an inestimable advantage...