Word: war
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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What the Norton-Harges Ambulance Unit has done is written large in the history of the relations between America and the Allies during the first years of the war. Its humanitarian results were testified by the request frequently made by wounded men to be evacuated in an American ambulance...
...those who gave their lives in the war the country will always be indebted. To those who, like Mr. Norton, also brought Europe, and the United Stated closer together we are doubly grateful. It is characteristic of the man that, though too old to join a combatant unit in the American Army, he had been twice decorated for gallantry. These are tangible acknowledgements of his work, but the real tribute for what he has accomplished lies in the heart of those who have been privileged to serve under him, and in the gratitude of every wounded man tended because...
Richard Norton, son of the late Professor Charles Eliot Norton '46, was the founder of the Norton-Harjes Ambulance Service, which was the first American Unit to aid the allied armies in the great war. For nearly a year the only American uniforms known overseas were those of the Norton-Harjes Ambulance Service, and all that the French had to judge this country by was the work of the men in this unit. At that time, many undergraduates left the University in order to join Norton's corps and have since played an important part in the entire history...
...University Memorial Society has been entrusted with all arrangements for the occasion by the Corporation and will invite the families of all members of the University who have lost their lives in the great war. The services are to be especially commemorative of these men. All officers and graduates of the University are invited to be present, particularly the surviving Harvard veterans of the Civil War, as well as the Charles Beck Post...
...large auditorium building is the third of the series of suggestions for a memorial in honor of the members of the University who gave their lives in the great war. In previous issues of the CRIMSON, the plans for a new gymnasium, and a memorial shaft to be erected in a park on the west bank of the Charles River were briefly considered. This article will deal with the possibilities, offered by an auditorium as a memorial to the University's dead...