Word: helping
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...well represented in the present war in the Field Srvice of the American Ambulance. A. Piatt Andrew, P. 1893, A.M., Harvard '95, was at the head of the service and in addition there were many other men, making a total of 35 men enrolled. This service has afforded invaluable help to the people of France, and is a debt that will not soon be forgotten. The following men are enlisted in the service...
...game a collection will be taken up for the Harvard Surgical Unit, whose members are going across the water to alleviate the sufferings of university men engaged in a more serious struggle. If all stop to think what purpose their contributions will serve, the amount of the collection cannot help being worthy of the throng of spectators. Let both Harvard and Princeton supporters, whether their particular team is ahead or not, remember the struggle in Europe and give gladly and generously...
...their part in maintaining the University's lead in the Preparedness movement. The delay in announcing the course made it impossible for many men who wished to enlist to rearrange their program of students, but in numerous instances they voluntarily took it as an extra course to help swell the enrolment, hoping that the University would be the first to have the training units established. Unfortunately this opportunity is now lost, but in fairness to the members of Military Science and Tactics 1 and to the University at large, every effort should be made by the College authorities to come...
Only a few weeks later this "Roi de l'Air," as he was known to the army, who had walked so often through our own College Yard, was dead on the field; shot down in an heroic effort to help his fellow-aviators-"a glorious death, face a Pennemi, for a great cause and to save a friend...
...Almost immediately after there came the sound of thousands of heavy rain drops on a stiff canvas or like the cracking of innumerable small whips; all this punctuated by a peculiar bizz, bizz, whizz sound like someone whistling in surprise. I could not help making the inward remark, 'I knew war was tought, but look here, boys; isn't this a bit too rough?' It seemed that the Germans had exploded a mine under one of our trenches, then opened a violent fusillade to capture what remained of it. Being second-line troops just arrived from resting up, we were...