Word: putnam
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...addition to the Croix de Cuerre, Legion of Honor, and Medaille Militaire, which were awarded him before his death, David E. Putnam '20, first lieutenant, Air Service, 139th Aero Squadron, has received the Distinguished Service Cross from the United States Government...
...only will all kinds of text-books be accepted in the text-book and clothing collection of Phillips Brooks House, but special emphasis will be laid on contributions of fiction works, magazines, and other literature. This is in accordance with a recent cable message from Herbert Putnam '83, Librarian of Congress, now in France, which reads as follows: "Urge everything possible to stimulate book and magazine donations--need never greater than present--at least million more fiction and miscellaneous books demanded within next six months to maintain army morale...
...wars of the Republic, it has been a tradition that the New England troops are always among the first on the scene of action, that they hold their own with the regiments of other sections of the country. Whether it be the Minute Men at Concord, the Volunteers of Putnam and Warren at Bunker Hill, or the 2nd Massachusetts breaking its way through Baltimore to the defense of Washington in 1861, the New England men have been called upon among the first, and have answered that call with readiness and valor. And in this war the tradition has been more...
...same time the following appointments were made: Kossuth Mayer Williamson, Assistant in Economics; Herbert Feis, tutor in the Division of History, Government, and Economics; Robert Herbert Loomis, tutor in the Division of History, Government, and Economics; Philip Putnam Chase, tutor in the Division of History, Government, and Economics; Lawrence D. Steefel, tutor in the Division of History, Government, and Economics; Sidney Raymond Packard, tutor in the Division of History, Government and Economics; Donald Buttz Clark, assistant in Philosophy; Joseph Leonard Walsh, instructor in Mathematics; Thurman Los Hood, Secretary of the Committee on the Use of English by Students; Lester...
Lieutenant Putnam also held the French War Cross before the award of this last decoration. He had a total of twenty enemy planes and an observation balloon to his credit when he was brought down on the Lorraine front by four German planes. He was the leader of the University's "Aces...