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Word has been received from Paris by the American Field Service that the French Army of the Orient has awarded war crosses to three former members of the University who were in the section that recently returned from the Balkans. Those who have been decorated are William Emersen '95, H. B. Palmer '10, both of New York, N. Y., and J. M. Walker '09, of Newburyport. According to dispatches, the medals were awarded for courageous action in removing wounded men in the region of Monastir, between December, 1916, and October, 1917. The work of these men was particularly noteworthy during...
...others in the same ambulance section were also decorated for devotion to duty. They were E. H. English, a student at Yale, and Jacques Magnini, of the University of Paris...
...education as they had lost it in commerce, and touched upon the relations of the Institute with the University. His speech sounded the keynote of the addresses at the dedication of Walker Memorial, attended by more than 600 former students and guests, and urged adequate support of this section as an educational centre...
...This section has lost its supremacy in the realm of commerce and it may lose it in the realm of education too. Indeed, I believe that it will inevitably lose it if it dissinates its energies and scatters its forces. Its greatest asset is its record of achievement and its tradition of high purpose and exalted aim. Let us continue to aim high. If we do so and are properly supported we can build up in this community one of the very greatest, if not the greatest centres to be found anywhere in the world of science, pure and applied...
There are poets of passion who strike a bolder note, but there are few such highly seasoned passages. By far the greater part of the volume is given over to harmless tinklings. The section of war poems is interesting. Surely here, I thought, will be poems that show the heart and imagination of our colleges astir and aflame. But the poems selected are all of a neutral tinge and most of them of a pacifist taint; possibly they reflect the personal prejudices and predilections of Mr. Schnittkind. There is not one that breathes the spirit of hearty indignation, healthy hate...