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...most enthusiastic and cordial welcome to the six French officers who arrived yesterday afternoon to assist in the training of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps of the University. From the time they left their train at the South Station until the entered the Harvard Club on Commonwealth avenue, the Frenchmen passed between two lines of cheering men and women; in places the crowds were so thick that it was an impossibility to move along the sidewalks...
...course the visit of the Frenchmen has far greater significance and value than that of the actual military service they will perform. It is only one of the great many signs that Harvard is beginning to recognize the debt which al America owes to France. The two countries, after a century and a half, are once, more allies in a just cause. At that time France helped us more than we can realize, with men and money with Rochambeau, d'Estaing, and Lafayette. In this war we have been helping France, too, if not so generally at least as devotedly...
...cheap as dirt. The crime of her trial and death are in all belief bad enough without inventing impossibly fiendish detail and a demonaic bishop for villain. Incidentally, the authoress of "Joan the Woman" seemed to have been rather hard put to it to present a good group of Frenchmen as the soldiers of the Maid and an equally good group of Englishmen compelled by cruel History to be her murderers. There seemed to be a vague impression in the audience that the Germans were some how responsible. We should add that the piece is exceptionally well acted, but marred...
...Verdun on to le Cabaret, our chief post, and occasionally to Ft. de Tavannes. This road seemed to be a centre of French batteries and consequently at times, for German shells, a distinctly undesirable situation, to say the least. We never took any stock in one of the Frenchmen who said: 'It isn't the shell you can hear you want to duck for, it's the one you can't hear that will cause the trouble.' When one sees Frenchmen of two years' experience dropping and ducking on hearing the whistle of a shell, one has no compunctions...
...like Dallas D. L. McGrew '03, of the Boston Journal, the interest is multiplied tenfold. In the current number of the Illustrated, Mr. McGrew tells what the American Ambulance is doing and can do in its service on the French battle-front. His comment on the attitude of the Frenchmen to the United States is straight to the point. "France feels . . . . that she is fighting for the preservation of the principles of liberty and the rights of the individual, the principles which underlie the existence of the American nation. In other words, the men composing that most democratic of institutions...