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...graduate contributions. President Maclaurin announced three gifts for this particular purpose at the Tech. Pop Concert last June. Two of these were sums of $100,000 and $150,000 from anonymous contributors; the other a gift of $100,000, which has just been telegraphed from T. Coleman du Pont, of the class...
...important sector extending from Metzeral to the famous Hartmanswellerkopf, where it opened up to motor transport the hitherto inaccessible mountain "postes de secours." This new work was made possible by the use of Fords. During the same month the French asked for a new section to send to Pont-a-Mousson. Following this a section was detailed to Dunkirk. Gradually the number of sections has been increased to nine in the field, one of which is in Salonica, and the French army is so well satisfied with the work of the service that more sections are constantly in demand. These...
...serves to carry wounded from the freight station of La Chapelle to all the hospitals in the Paris district, there are four other units at work. One squad is attached to Hospital "B," at Juilly, about 40 kilometers east of Paris. The other three units are stationed at Dunkirk, Pont-a-Mousson, and on the Alsace border, the total number of cars employed in these places being about 75. Each section is attached to the French army, is fed and lodged by it, and is subject to its discipline. The army furnishes gasoline and tires, but the drivers...
...charge of a squad stationed at St. Pol until his resignation in the spring, and C. T. Lovering '02 succeeded Filley in command of a section that served in the north and then at Hospital "B" in Juilly. E. V. Salisbury '08 is in command of the section at Pont-a-Mousson...
...French front from Nancy through Lunecille to Gerbeviller and back, in company with the Mayor, and Recteur of the University of Nancy, and Professor Paul Petit, of the Faculte des Sciences there. On the previous day, during my lecture at the university, I had heard the cannon roar at Pont-a-Mousson, and though I was assured that there was came absolu along all the front that I was to visit, that the lines were two or three kilometers and more apart, and that in all probability nothing but artillery duels would occur, I felt that some little excitement...