Word: held
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...most interesting events concerned with the lighter side of trench warfare which I experienced during my year in France, spend most of the time at the front was the first Harvard class banquet ever held under fire," said Major Carroll J. Swan '01, of the 101st Engineers, in an interview with a CRIMSON reporter. "In my own regiment three out of the six company commanders were in the class of 1901 at the University, Captain Edwin Bruch, Captain Charles Roach, and myself. On a section of the Toul front we met two other clasments, one a Colonel of Artillery...
...round of shells into the hostile lines. After the deafening noise had ceased and the Colonel had resumed his place, the celebration continued and was finished without interruption. We believe that the class of 1901 holds the honor of being the only class in any college to have held a class banquet under fire...
...Howe has held the position of editor since the autumn of 1913, and is now resigning in order to be able to devote more time to his biographical work. In connection with this work he is now engaged in compiling the biographies of all men from the University who has been killed in the war. As one of a small number of contributing editors, however, Mr. Howe will continue his connection with the Bulletin...
...selection for this year will be the poem by Robert Browning entitled "How, They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix." Preliminary trials will he held Wednesday, March 12, and from these candidates will be chosen for the final contest. The number selected for the finals depends on the quality of the speakers...
...Gibbs also mentioned the esteem in which our soldiers were held in England and ended by saying that "the British have a strong respect for the American universities and in their behalf I greet Harvard with the greatest reverence...