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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...most interesting events concerned with the lighter side of trench warfare which I experienced during my year in France, spend most of the time at the front was the first Harvard class banquet ever held under fire," said Major Carroll J. Swan '01, of the 101st Engineers, in an interview with a CRIMSON reporter. "In my own regiment three out of the six company commanders were in the class of 1901 at the University, Captain Edwin Bruch, Captain Charles Roach, and myself. On a section of the Toul front we met two other clasments, one a Colonel of Artillery...
...students will be able to take a training program which will not interfere with prescribed college work while studying for a degree but will at the end of three years turn them out fully qualified aviators. When asked if the University would establish and Aviation Unit, Col. Goetz said that the military training for next year was to be determined by the University authorities. No plans had been for mutated the said which would prevent the training of aviators in college...
...probabilities are that Austin, Hastings, Perkins, Divinity, Craigie, and Russell Halls will be abandoned by the Radio School and turned over to the trustees of the University in the course of a few days," said Lieutenant-Commander N. F. Ayer '00, Commandant of the Naval Radio School, in reply to the question of a CRIMSON reporter Saturday. "Hastings and Perkins," he continued, "are being relieved of their large supplies of clothing and equipment and will be at the disposal of the college as soon as they are empty. The other buildings I have mentioned are being evacuated...
...Oxford and Cambridge were completely wiped out in the very first days of the war," said Phillip Gibbs, the British war correspondent when interviewed by a CRIMSON reporter soon after his arrival in Boston yesterday. "When the storm burst we had only our small regular army of about seven divisions known as the "contemptible." Two hundred and fifty students from Cambridge joined this army as despatch riders, not waiting to receive commissions. The service these men rendered was huge. They were the only motorcycle despatch carriers and accomplished wonders in the retreat from Mons, riding straight into the unknown German...
What has been said concerning the Japanese students can be said with equal truth about the Siamese and Chinese. The Far East has sent many men to Harvard since the war closed European universities. Since the great barrier raised by the Bolsheviki at the Ural Mountains has bound us still more closely to these people, no such chance as this should be ignored to place relations upon the most cordial basis. The friendships formed in college today will develop into international friendships of tomorrow...