Word: williams
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...last meeting of the Monthly Board, George Woodman Emery '19, of Lexington, was elected to the board of editors as advertising-manager, and William Harris Cary, Jr., '20, of Cambridge, was elected to the business staff. Owing to the resignation of T. Nelson '18 as treasurer, William Burry, Jr., '18, of Chicago, Ill., was appointed to this position...
...during the present academic year, 1916-17, is being compiled by the Stratford Publishing Company, 32 Oliver street, Boston. The company issued a similar volume for the college year of 1915-16 and the present Anthology will be uniform with the receding one. It will have an introduction by William S. Braithwaite, poetry editor of the Boston Transcript, whose long experience makes him an excellent critic of the first efforts of college undergraduates and who wrote a preface to the 1915-16 edition...
...William Henry Schofield, Ph.D. '93, Professor of Comparative Literature, has been elected president of the American Scandinavian Foundation, formed five years ago by Niels Poulson, a wealthy Dane of New York, with a large endowment to encourage closer intellectual relationship between America and Scandinavia. It has the patronage of the kings of Norway, Sweden and Denmark, and has advisory committees of influential men in each of these countries. Professor Schofield has long been prominent in international relations, having served as exchange professor at Berlin, the Sorbonne and the University of Copenhagen...
...section, which has since been attached to the Sixteenth Division, has rendered a great service in transporting wounded under difficult and often dangerous circumstances. On December 29, 1916, during a bombardment, the drivers showed conspicuous coolness and absolute devotion in succoring the wounded and conveying them to ambulances. Driver William Meadowcroft has given many proofs of calmness and coolness since the arrival of the division, often under perilous circumstances. He was wounded on December 29, during the bombardment...
Then followed a festival of cheering, singing and speechmaking, which lasted far into the morning. Speeches were made by Former President William Howard Taft. Former Senator Chauncey M. Depew, Vance McCormick, who engineered President Wilson's last trip to the White House, and many others...