Word: war
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...University man, A. P. Andrew, A.M. '95, has received the Legion of Honor decoration. Forty-one Harvard men have been decorated with the War Cross, and L. Hill '10 has been cited four times...
...weekly meetings of the Aeronautical Society were resumed last evening when the society discussed balloons and their uses in the present war. A. H. Andrews '20, who has had experience with the balloon department of the Goodyear aviation plant at Akron, Ohio, spoke upon the construction and operation of military airships and the uses of the aerostatics or balloon type of aircraft...
...bureau are maintained "for the friends" of our college boys in France, as well as for the boys themselves. The work was inevitable from the first, in view of the thousands of young American collegians, alumni and undergraduates, who hurried to France even before this country entered the war...
...College, as elsewhere, the outbreak of war dwarfed all other events of the year. The College work had, however, been hampered earlier by two incidents which, in ordinary times, would be regarded as serious,--namely, the epidemic of infantile paralysis along the Atlantic Coast and the military service of many of our students on the Mexican Border. Several colleges retarded their opening because of the epidemic. It is a satisfaction to report that the decision of the Harvard authorities to open on time, made after careful deliberation and upon expert advice, was vindicated. Only one student contracted poliomyelitis throughout...
...War Caused Complications...