Word: shannons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...meeting at the Union tonight to organize the James A. Shannon Post of the American Legion deserves more than a mere complimentary attendance on the part of the undergraduate body, including these men who are members of local posts elsewhere. All former men in the University who have not already affiliated themselves with the organization are strongly urged to do so. College men especially should not allow their responsibility to terminate with the coming of peace...
...University who were formerly in the service are invited to the meeting in the Living Room of the Union at 8 o'clock tomorrow night, at which the James A. Shannon Post (the Harvard University Post) of the American Legion will be formed. Major-General Clarence Edwards will be the principal speaker at this meeting. Professor Theodore Lyman '98, Acting Commander of the Post, will preside, and will outline the plans for the immediate organization of this new branch of the American Legion. Colonel Edward L. Logan '98, State Commander of the American Legion; President Lowell, and Professor...
Major-General Clarence Edwards has accepted Professor Theodore Lyman's invitation to speak at the meeting Tuesday evening in the Living Room of the Union to organize the James A. Shannon Post (the Harvard University Post) of the American Legion. Professor Lyman who has been appointed the acting commander of the Shannon Post, was not assured of General Edwards' acceptance when he first announced the list of speakers, but received definite word from him yesterday. It was also learned that Rearl Admiral Herbert Dunn, Commandant of the First Naval District, who had also been invited, would be unable to attend...
...organization next Tuesday evening of the James A. Shannon Post of the American Legion will afford an excellent opportunity for those former service men in the University who have not already done so to enroll themselves in the Legion. It is peculiarly fitting that the post should bear the name of Lieutenant-Colonel Shannon, for it was due in no small measure to his inspiring personality that the R.O.T.C. camp of 1917 proved such a great success, and furnished so many able and well-trained officers to the Army. Many of those who served under him that summer later laid...
...post is named in honor of Lieutenant Colonel J. A. Shannon, who commanded the Harvard R. O. T. C. during the summer of 1917 and was later killed in action at Chatel-le-Chery. During his command here Colonel Shannon made himself greatly beloved by the students, and when he left for service overseas he carried the good wishes of the entire University with...