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According to a letter from the artillery officer in charge of the covering fire during the engagement on the French from in which Allen Shortt '17 was reported to have been captured, he has been awarded the military cross for capturing a German machine gun. Shortt, who was attached to the machine gun section of the 59th Canadian battalion was also mentioned in several official dispatches for singular bravery in leading his platform across the so-called "No-Man-Land" into the German French where he captured practically single-handed, the enemy...
According to a cable from London received at Brockville, Ont., Allan Shortt '17, who was attached to the machine gun section of the 59th Canadian battalion was officially announced as missing after an engagement on the French front. Shortt, who is lieutenant, is thought to be a prisoner of war. He is a nephew of the late Seth Low, LL.D., '90, former mayor-of New York, and was a member of the Class of 1917 when he went to Brockville to enlist...
...annual dinner of the Circolo Italiano, the following officers for 1915-16 were elected: President, Angelo Perez '17, of Andover; vice-president, Allen Shortt '17, of New York; secretary, Victor Harry Willard '18, of Cambridge; and treasurer, George Campbell Wood '16, of North Easton...
William Hamilton Russell '18, of New York, captain of next year's fencing team won the University fencing championship yesterday afternoon. He won three bouts and lost none. B. S. Nichols '17 was second, with two victories and one defeat, while A. Shortt '17 and A. B. D. do Kay '16 finished third and fourth, respectively...
...easily defeated Yale and Bowdoin, by winning eighteen out of twenty-one matches. The team that has represented the University during the greater part of the season and in both the finals and semi-finals was made up of Captain T. J. Putnam '15, B. S. Nichals '16, A Shortt '17, and A. B. D. dekay '16, substitute. Fortunately only one of this combination will be lost to the team by graduation, T. J. Putnam '15, and the others with the experience they have acquired this season should make up one of the strongest teams that has represented the University...