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After graduating, Mr. Wendell continued to take a keen interest in athletics, not only as an official at the big track meets but on various athletic committees. In particular, he was chairman of the committees which arranged the international games between Cambridge and Oxford on one side, and Yale and Harvard on the other in 1899, 1901, and 1904, and he was a member of the Olympia committee...
Starting in the leading part of the Hasty Pudding play "Dido and Aeneas," written by Owen Wister '82, Mr. Wendell soon achieved a reputation in amateur theatricals and became a member of the Players Club of New York. His interest in the stage caused him to gather together theatrical literature and pictures, play bills, and autographs of wellknown players. His library and collection are among the most complete in the world...
...most recent interest has been in aviation and he has veen very active, particularly since the outbreak of the war, in furthering and promoting flying, especially at Squantum. It was in this work that he was engaged when he met his death in France. He was connected with the Red Cross and other relief work as well as with aviation...
Although the instruction given by the French Mission, their interest and zeal in the work and their skill in conducting the exercises were responsible for the great success of the R. O. T. C., no less credit is due to Captain James A. Shannon, who was in charge of the regiment for the greater part of the three months. Less known to the University at large, but hardly less deserving, was the part played by Major Theodore Lyman '93 in handling the finances of the Corps. Had it not been for his work at several critical periods in the earlier...
...course of lectures of special interest to the general public and to teachers of history in schools will be given by members of the Department of History and by the visiting French officers. These lectures will be entitled "Historical Aspects of the Present War," and for the convenience of the largest possible public they will be given late in the afternoon in the New Lecture Hall. Professor Haskins will have the opening lecture on "The War and the Teacher"; Professor A. C. Coolidge will give ten lectures on "The Historical Antecedents of the War"; Colonel Azan and other officers will...