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Captain Dunn was born in Adams, and is 39 years old. At the out-break of the Spanish-American war, when he was only 18, he enlisted as a private in the Massachusetts National Guard, and served during the war in Cuba. As a result of this, he was commissioned first lieutenant in the National Guard in 1909, and held that rank until his regiment became part of the regular army in March...
...canteen, reading and writing room, and hostess house will be opened today by Phillips Brooks House Association at the old Speakers' Club House, 39 Holyoke street, opposite Standish Hall. It will be open to all men in the service, but is intended primarily to serve members of the military and naval units of the University. This extension of the activities of Phillips Brooks House Association has been made in order that the men who live in the Freshman dormitories or on Mt. Auburn street may find it more convenient to avail themselves of the services which are offered...
...matter of education is one of timely interest and importance just now, for the war is sweeping away many old ideas and creating new ones that will materially affect the coming generation. We realize now that the interchange of instructors between our universities and those of Germany was not the benevolent scheme that we believed it to be, but an important step in the Kaiser's attempt to influence public opinion here by implanting his peculiar kultur in the breasts and minds of impressionable youth. We are beginning to understand also that in the future we shall be bound more...
...they're more quiet now than then, I assure you. Save for our presence and that of a few civilians who have come back to take up the sorry task of rebuilding and rehabilitating--yes, and save for an occasional air raid--we might as well be in some old stone quarry, camping by piles of scrap rock...
...company attended the divisional bayonet school conducted by Captain Harrop and Sergeant-Major Richards of the British army at the S. A. T. C. Camp at Plattsburg this summer. Before outdoor drill is stopped by the weather, it is expected that the company will have finished the old extended order drill, and have started on the new American formations as taught this summer by Captain Morize...