Word: westerners
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Reports from eastern universities show that last semester an inordinately large number of students were discharged on account of deficiency in their studies. Western institutions did not figure so prominently...
Word has been received from France of the death in action on the Western Front of three more members of the University and of the capture by the Germans of a fourth. A fifth has recently died of pneumonia at Camp Meade. This is the largest single casualty list of Harvard men that has yet appeared...
...share which the University is having in the present war. In addition to the above names is that of Briggs Kilburn Adams '17, a lieutenant in the Royal Flying Corps, who died in a Red Cross Hospital in France last week from wounds received in action o n the Western Front. Approximately 90 members of the University are engaged in aviation...
Adams, who graduated from College last spring, joined the Royal Flying Corps at Toronto, Canada, a few days after Commencement. He was commissioned a second lieutenant last December, and was sent to England at once. A few weeks later he was put on active service on the Western Front. During the summer of 1916, Adams served as a Red Cross ambulance driver...
...Brien of the Royal Flying Corps will speak in Emerson D this afternoon at 4.30 o'clock under the auspices of the University Aeronautical Society. His talk, the subject of which has not been announced, will probably be on aviation, as well as on his remarkable experiences on the Western Front and in a German prison camp, from which he made his escape...