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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...
...Social Service work of Phillips Brooks House is to be carried on as successfully as in past years, a large number of new men must enroll immediately. Only one hundred men have registered this year while in years past 300 to 400 undergraduates have been actively engaged in one of the numerous branches of Social Service...
...amusements. They need only a leader to direct their energies. There are many older boys and young men who are no longer able to attend school, and yet have only begun to learn. They need some one to guide their reading and conduct classes. Then there is that large number of foreigners, many of whom have been here for years and are still foreign. They need to be interested and instructed in our language and customs...
Approximately 36 per cent of the alumni and undergraduates of the University have been engaged actively in war work, while the service record of all college men in this country puts the number of those who took part in the war at only about 18 per cent, just half the University's record. Further statistics have been complied by the CRIMSON, which show that the men from Harvard, Yale, and Princeton served the nation equally well during the emergency, no one institution distinguishing itself above the others for its measure of sacrifice. It is evident that...
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...