Word: honoring
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...heat of battle Invariably produces a certain number of men who distinguish themselves by heroic service. The world has learned to expect such results from soldiers, and therefore it reads of the frequent awards for valor to them without surprise. The rarity with, which civiliane. receive such honors however, causes a much deeper impression upon the mind when these events do occur. Hence, America will pause longer and more approvingly than usual over the news that Frank Herbert Simonds '00, was decorated a knight of the Legion of Honor in Paris on Saturday...
...great honor which has come to Mr. Simonds is ample proof that a great cause can be served behind the firing line as well as on it. Although he has written chiefly through The Times and The Tribune, of New York, there is scarcely a paper throughout the country which has not given space to his analytical and farsighted articles upon the war. As befitting the distinguished reward that has come to him, his prolific writings have done much to clarify the mind of America upon the justice of the cause which was demanding more and more sacrifice from...
Frank H. Simonds '00 was made a knight of the Legion of Honor at a dinner in Paris Saturday evening at which Herbert Hoover, director-general of the international relief organization was the principal speaker. The decoration was awarded by Minister of Commerce Clementel...
Three per cent of the Harvard men who fought are on the Roll of Honor. Princeton had slightly over, and Yale slightly under, two per cent killed. 21 per cent of the University's Faculty have been absent on Government service, and 13 per cent of Yale's. The number of professors on leave of absence from Princeton is not known, though almost 55 per cent of her faculty were engaged in some form of war work, the majority of them remaining, however, at the college...
Colonel Constant Cordier, commander of the University R. O. T. C. in the spring of 1917, has been awarded the Distinguished Service Medal by the United States Government, and the Decoration of the Legion of Honor by the Government of France. General Collardet, French Military Attache presented the latter Decoration, and Secretary Baker awarded the Distinguished Service Medal with the following citation: "While on duty as liaison officer between the War Department and the foreign military missions, he displayed the greatest discretion and ability and contributed materially to the successful conduct of military-diplomatic relations between the War Department...