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Arthur Beane '11, who has been Graduate Secretary of Phillips Brooks House from the time of his graduation until September of this year, is now engaged in war work at Slatersville, R. I., as super-personnel director of a group of cotton mills. He is in charge of the employment bureau of the Slatersville Finishing Company, under Mr. Henry P. Kendall of Boston. Besides his duties as director of personnal, Mr. Beane also has under his supervision the problem of housing. He will remain in his present position until the end of the war. He was Social Service Secretary during...
Captain Charles C. Dunn, Commander of the First Battalion of the S. A. T. C., has served 11 months in France. Before this country entered the war, he was a first lieutenant in the Second Massachusetts Regiment of the National Guard. This regiment was called into national service on March 25, 1917, and later, in August, it was combined with the Eighth Massachusetts to form what is now the regular 104th United States Infantry, of the 26th Division. This division left for France soon afterward, and was assigned to the Chemin-des-Dames sector. It bore the brunt...
...Detachment has organized. The annual Technology Field Day will be held on November 16, when teams representing the army and navy will compete for the honors instead of the usual contest between the freshmen and the sophomores. The Field Day events will be the usual ones, namely: tug-of-war, relay races, other track events and football; the teams have already been chosen, and are hard at work...
President Maclaunin, of Technology, has been serving as chairman of the War Educational Committee, under whose supervision this war-time speeding up is being carried...
Over 15,000 soldiers have registered at the headquarters of the American University Union in Paris. The greater part of those registering have been officers. The union has taken over a hotel for the period of the war and it is the meeting place for college men. Many of the colleges have an overseas club-room there. About 125 men are taken care of nightly and there is always a big demand for quarters...