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There was only one fatality among the navy men from the College. In the army, the death rate appeared highest among second lieutenants. Hazard Stevens '64, with the rank of brevet brigadier-general, held the highest position among those who were undergraduates at the outbreak of the war. Army. RANK FATALITIES Privates, 91 13 Corporals, 4 0 Sergeants, 8 3 2d Lieutenants, 25 10 1st Lieutenants, 81 18 Brevet Captains, 2 0 Captains, 103 13 Brevet Majors, 6 0 Majors, 27 3 Brevet Lieut.-Col., 1 0 Lieut.-Cols., 18 4 Brevet Colonels, 3 0 Colonels, 26 7 Brevet Brig...
...Lowell. Various members of the Faculty and their wives will be invited. Throughout the past week the Frenchmen have been entertained by various organizations in Boston at dinner and receptions, and as the first official representatives of the French Government who have been in the city since the outbreak of the war, they have been royally received everywhere...
Word has been received from Paris that Richard Norton '92 has been given the Cross of the Legion of Honor. He is the first American to receive this distinction for services during the war. Norton was one of the organizers of the Norton-Harjes Ambulance Corps at the outbreak of the war and has built up this branch of service until it now has a record of carrying over 30,000 wounded during...
...spirit of patriotism united with a capacity for effective help. I do not doubt that we shall find in Harvard, Yale and Princeton and the other universities the same inspiring devotion for the cause of the country that the great universities or England, Oxford and Cambridge, showed at the outbreak of the war and have continued to show in all the dark days of gloom that England has had to pass through...
When questioned as to the conditions in the English colleges before the outbreak of the war Mr. Noyes replied, "You see, we had one advantage over your country in that for years both Oxford and Cambridge have had a kind of officers' training corps, and although it was more or less a side issue and not taken as seriously as the R. O. T. C. in the United States, nevertheless, it has given hundreds of men a grounding in the first principles of military training. For years we had a certain amount of military drill, so when the war came...