Word: naval
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Lundin made a careful survey of the military and naval war service records of Harvard graduates from 1775 to 1783 and found that eight of the 57 signers of the Declaration of Independence were alumni of the College, that General Artemas Ward, class of 1748, was the first Commander-in-Chief of the Continental army, and that 245 of 1361 living graduates saw active war service. Fifteen percent of the graduate body at this time were known as loyalists or "Tories" with another group of 250 recognized as of patriot sympathies although unqualified for military duty...
...Wartime U. S. Emergency Fleet. Some Congressmen had tried to require the Board's unanimous vote, or six-out-of-seven. President Coolidge is anxious to oust the U. S. from the shipping business. To a provision doubling the pay of U. S. merchant mariners who join the Naval Reserve, the President had objected, but accepted it finally, knowing it would please patriots...
...Voted down 44 to 22, the 16-ship Navy building bill. (Chairman Thomas S. Butler of the House Naval Affairs Committee 72-year-old Pennsylvania Quaker, died in his Washington apartment within a few hours of the Senate's action. He had been prostrated since April by heart attack that followed his exertions in behalf of the Navy bill in the House. He had been in the House 31 consecutive years, longer than any other present member...
Died. Thomas S. Butler, 72, "fighting Quaker" Chairman of the House Naval Committee; of heart disease; in Washington...
...Robinson Hall German B Sever 5 Mathematics 21 Sever 6 2 o'clock, (X) Chemistry 14a hf Harvard 2 Fine Arts 5a Fogg Small Lect. Rm. French 28 hf Emerson D Military Science 1 New Lect. Hall Military Science 3 Section 1 Harvard 5 Section 2 Harvard 2 Naval Science 1 Emerson 1 Naval Science 2 Emerson...