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...later life Robert Bacon was a banker, first in Boston and, since 1894, with the Morgan firm in New York. Appointed by Elihu Root as his Associate Secretary of State, he later became head of the State Department under President Roosevelt. As Ambassador to France he served for three years with great distinction. An advocate of preparedness, he strongly supported General Wood's Plattsburg Officers' Training Camp System. Attending the first Plattsburg business man's camp, he became a major in May, 1919, and returned from France after the armistice as a Colonel on General Pershing's Staff. During...
...Abbreviations--(A), Amherst; (B), Bowdoin; (C), Columbia; (Cor), Cornell; (D) Dartmouth; (G), Georgetown; (J. H.), Johns Hopkins); (H), Harvard; (Hav), Haverford; (L), Lafayette; (Me), Maine; (Mich), Michigan; (M. I. T.), Massachusetts Institute of Technology; (N. Y. U.), New York University; (Penn), Pennsylvania; (Pitt), Pittsburgh; (Pr), Princeton; (R), Rutgers; (Sw), Swarthmore; (Syr), Syracuse; (Y), Yale...
...anxious audience, spoke of that occasion as "the darkest day since the United States entered the war." With the German hordes pouring over the Marne, the allied armies apparently unable to give any adequate resistance, civilization seemed very much in the balance. And Memorial Day took on a new significance. Instead of a time-honored function to commemorate the dead of the Civil and the Spanish Wars,--a memory of battles which somehow lacked reality to the generation of college men,--we were gathered in honor of men, some of whose faces we had known, men who had died fighting...
...Latin odist; and the election of the secretary for next year will be announced. It is customary for the members of the Yale and Princeton chapters to be present at this banquet but this year the high-stand men have been unable to make the trip to Cambridge from New Haven or Princeton...
...course the mere establishment of the Charles W. Eliot Fund for a Harvard Educational School will not mean the development of an immediate cultural Utopia in New England. But at the same time it is a most generous initial step in a campaign, which is bound to come, if America is to continue to turn out ever more completely educated men to cope with her problems at home and abroad...