Word: friends
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...service abroad, Lieutenant De Fourmestraux fought for a time in the same regiment with Captain Paul Amann, who was detailed at the University with the Iron Battalion and with the University R. O. T. C. in the early part of last fall. He is also an intimate friend of Lieutenant Jean Giraudoux, the grenadier officer of the French Mission at the University last summer, with whom he was associated in the Aviation Office in France...
...past few centuries that zero weather was over for a year as far as this neighborhood was concerned. Statistics show that the overwhelming majority of University students has its legal residence in the only Commonwealth in America, but in regard to the prophecy made by our Boston friend everyone in Cambridge claims to hail from a certain state in the Southwest. We do not wish to be foolishly skeptical, but seeing is believing, and until the warm winds of summer are with us we shall be anything but reassured. We had almost been persuaded to believe that the Teutonic assertion...
...rooms on the ground floor there is a pathetic relic of Rheims Cathedral, which has recently been sent to the Museum by a French friend of the University, who was here last year. It is a bit of molten lead which had fallen down from the roof on to the pavement, catching one or two little scraps of stone work in its fall. The relic has sentimental but not artistic value...
...have heard probably of Harvard's loss, the stage's--future stage, at least--loss, and my loss--in that bully good fellow and perfect friend, Ham Craig. His section, Number 2, was working right beside us; their 'postes' were adjacent to ours--and he died from wounds received in action--it all occurred between 10 in the evening and 2 the next-morning. And all the time I was driving a car and never thinking of him going. I saw his grave--all flower-covered. It was in the heart of a cemetery of French soldiers--lines of them...
Putnam was graduated from Newton High School in 1916. Last spring he went to France with an ambulance unit and after finishing his work in that branch entered the aviation service. In a letter to a friend several weeks ago, Putnam told of a 2,000-foot fall, from which he escaped with nothing more serious than two broken teeth...