Word: french
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Jeremiah Denis Matthias Ford '94, Ph.D., Smith Professor of the French and Spanish languages, will conduct evening prayers in Appleton Chapel today at 7 o'clock. Services will be led tomorrow evening by Dr. Charles Locke Scudder '88, M.D., Assistant Professor of Surgery. Every evening next week prayers will be conducted by the Reverend Charles Reynolds Brown, D.D., of the Yale School of Religion. At the Sunday morning services in the Chapel at 11 o'clock, Sir Henry Jones, LL.D., F.B.A., Litt.D., Professor of Moral Philosophy in the University of Glasgow, Scotland, will be the speaker. He was formerly Professor...
...June, a week after we had followed our division back from as disagreeable a month of retreating as ever I hope to see. As a matter of fact, I believe sincerely we all shall not see again a retreat coming our way. This morning, too, comes a continuingly excellent French communique. In the little villages having Major du cantonnement (and that means any village where troops are quartered), there is usually a wall, or house-side, whereon are posted the telephoned reports, two, three or more times a day. There is a bit of coping above to save, the paper...
...time. Ed McDougall received one at the same time, and Bill Bingham "went up" to Captain--so wherever Harvard is she marches on. Four days later I was back in a well-remembered pays with a new-to-me Section. The men are a splendid bunch--the French staff congenial--and the division is a crack one. Two Chasseur Battalions and two infantry regiments--all but one of the Chasseur groups wear the Medaille Militaire fourrageres, and that group has the Croix de Guerre fourrageres, so it is quite a division. I have not been through any great excitement...
...following includes all reports up to September 21, 1918, and shows a marked increase over the list of last June. ACTIVE SERVICE. Sept. 21, June 1918 1918 U. S. Army, 4805 4644 U. S. Navy, 1104 945 Foreign Allied Armies, 165 136 British, 83 Canadian, 38 Australian, 1 French, 40 Russian, 2 Belgian, 1 Died in Service, 124 78 Total, 6198 5803 Sept. 21 June 1918 1918 Auxiliary Service, 2583 2146 (Including State Guard, Volunteer Ambulance Service, Red Cross and Y. M. C. A. at home and abroad, and Relief Service). Died in Service, 21 20 Total...
...boys, Copey, have done remarkably well. I am with the French and I know how the French feel. We have bragged a lot about what we should do, and the best of it is we are going ahead of what we really thought we were able to do. The American is no longer a curiosity on this side. We see hundreds of them every day, and it is wonderful to see the way they are pouring...