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Francis Peabody Magoun, Jr., '15, of Cambridge, a second lieutenant in the Royal Flying Corps, according to word which has just been received in a letter written by him from France, brought down his first German airplane on December 16. The exact sector in which he was engaged is not known. The despatch states that he got so near to the enemy plane that he could see the red cheeks of his Boche enemy, a shot from his machine fun sending a bullet through the German's head. The Boche was a man of great reputation in the Allied camps...
...early part of the war Magoun left College to drive an ambulance on the French front at Verdun and Champagne. He remained in that service for some time, but returned to College. He stayed here until last February, when he went to England and enlisted in the Royal Flying Corps...
Letters from France recently received in Boston lay much emphasis on an American agency that is doing a far-reaching work for good among our boys overseas--the American University Union, which has taken possession of the Royal Palace Hotel in Paris. And it should be made plain that there are no unhappy class distinctions in the work in question, for the headquarters and bureau are maintained "for the friends" of our college boys in France, as well as for the boys themselves. The work was inevitable from the first, in view of the thousands of young American collegians, alumni...
...Cleghorn, Assistant in Physiology, University Medical School '98-'00, died in England, March 20,1916, while a captain in the Royal Army Medical Crops...
...letter received from George H. Nettleton. Secretary of the American University Union in Europe, word has come that within three weeks of the opening, men from 84 different American colleges have registered at the Union. The quarters secured at the Royal Palace Hotel are already over-crowded and additional lodgings are being provided elsewhere at an adjacent hotel. The central location and excellent facilities offered have already proved very attractive to college men in active service when on furlough in Paris or passing through the city...