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...then held for another day, waiting for the French on our right to catch up; then back to support for a few days; and back into it again on the Vesle for 10 days more. Yes, I think that's a pretty good record for a regiment not thirteen months old, and in their first fight, too--a pretty good record and one we're all proud of, too. But I mustn't blow our horn too loud--you'll think the old fighting 38th is patting itself on the back too strong...
...Leave of absence for thirteen days effective, May 29, 1918, is herewith granted to Joseph Warren, Harvard...
...total Y. M. C. A. Hut Fund subscriptions amounted to $50,287.25. Of this, approximately $20,000 came from Faculty subscriptions through the Cambridge City Committee and approximately $30,000 from student subscriptions. Of the $30,000 subscribed by students, $20,484.57 has been paid in. Thirteen thousand, three hundred dollars have been paid over to the National War Work Council. The balance, $7,184.57 is on account at the Charles River Trust Company, where it is drawing interest at three and one-half per cent...
...Quantico, Va., we got off in the early part of September. As I stood a regular turn in the submarine watch,--two on and six off,--I can assure you very sincerely that the transports take no end of precautions to evade the 'fish,' as commanders call them. In thirteen days we sighted France, going slowly up a tiny river into a small port, just as dusk settled. Some women were waving American flags on the porches, or rather the door-steps of their tiny white houses, and I felt thrills leaping from my heart to my head that...
...party consisted of twenty-nine men and included specialists in medicine, bacteriology, hospital management, food, sanitation, and sociology. Colonel Frank Buildings of Chicago was in command of the expedition. We left Boston on June 29, crossed the Pacific in ten days, and then took the long ride of thirteen days across Siberia and Russia to Petrograd, where we arrived August 7. The object of the Mission was to give aid to the Russian people in their prosecution of the war by furnishing needed supplies for the care of the sick and wounded in the army and relief to the needy...