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...devastated in the Hundred Years' War between France and England, and the armies of the Emperor Charles V. invaded it, besieging Peronne in 1536 and St. Quentin 21 years later. Wellington led the English army through Peronne on the way to Paris after Waterloo. The neighboring fortress of Ham, which was wrecked last spring by the Germans, was the prison of Louis Napoleon from 1840 to 1846, and from it he escaped disguised as a laborer. In January, 1871, St. Quentin, Bapaume, Ham, and Peronne were the scenes of sanguinary battles between the Germans and the French provincial armies attempting...
...have heard probably of Harvard's loss, the stage's--future stage, at least--loss, and my loss--in that bully good fellow and perfect friend, Ham Craig. His section, Number 2, was working right beside us; their 'postes' were adjacent to ours--and he died from wounds received in action--it all occurred between 10 in the evening and 2 the next-morning. And all the time I was driving a car and never thinking of him going. I saw his grave--all flower-covered. It was in the heart of a cemetery of French soldiers--lines of them...
...Reverend Paul Revere Frothing-ham, D.D., of the Arlington Street Church, Boston, will conduct morning prayers in the Faculty Room, University Hall, this morning and every morning this week at 8.45 o'clock. The services close promptly at 9 o'clock...
...appointed as follows: Lawrence Rich Grose in Forestry; Walter William Spencer Cook in Fine Arts; Charles Grover Smith in Physics; William Edward Masterson in Public Speaking; Philip Francis Weatherill and Albert Howard Bump in Chemistry; Emmett Kirkendall Carver as assistant to the Director of the Gibbs Laboratory; Fred Lemuel Ham in Economics; Victor Fritz Lenzen and Ralph Mason Blake in Philosophy; Somers Fraser and Conrad Jacobson in Surgery; Warren Richards Sisson in Pediatrics; Martin Joseph English in Medicine; Robert Jay Cook and Lloyd Thornton Brown in Orthopedic Surgery; Frederick Leo Good in Gynaecology; Delos Judson Bristol, Jr., in Obstetrics; William...
Finance Committee--William Markham Akin, of St. Louis, Mo.; George Carey Barclay, of New York, N. Y.; Hugh Bridgman, of Salem; Chester William Cook, of Worcester; Phillip Henry Currier, of Wellesley Hills; Stillman Roberts Dun-ham, Jr., of Allston; Paul Blodgett Elliott, of Dorchester; Frederick Taylor Fisher, of Chicago, Ill.; Abram Waldo French, of West Newton; Robert Ells-worth Gross, of West Newton; Joseph Henry Poett Howard, of Chester, N. S.; William Coit Hubbard, of Chicago, Ill.; Royal Little, of Brookline; Francis Parkman, of Boston; Howard Pratt Perry, of Newton Centre; William Henry Potter, Jr., of Watertown; Horatio Rogers...