Word: italian
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...clothing which has been gathered will be distributed in the following manner; one case to the Italian War Relief Fund of America; one case to the Y. M. C. A. for the relief of destitute students in Switzerland; and the balance to The Cambridge Red Cross for shipment overseas. All of the military equipment will to turned over to the Morgan Memorial Institute, a large social service institution in Boston, which has offered to make over the uniforms into ordinary wearing apparel. The text-books will be placed in the Phillips Brooks House Loan Library, while the fiction works...
...Fogg Art Museum will hold a celebration in honor of the four hundredth anniversary of the death of Leonardo da Vinci. As the Museum has a large collection of Italian works of art of the period, no new additions will be made...
...entertainment will consist of several Italian musical numbers characteristic of the time rendered by Dr. A. T. Davison '06 and the University Choir. Dr. George Sarton who has been employed by the Carnegie Foundation to investigate the scientific work of Leonardo, will speak on the subject: "Leonardo as the Scientist." Professor G. H. Edgell '09 will also talk on the artistic attainments of da Vinci...
...entire personnel of the Brown University ambulance unit, which entered the Italian sector on Sept. 16, 1918, has been decorated with the croce al merito di guerra, the croix de guerre of Italy. There are 32 men in the unit, of whom 15 are from Brown. It originally contained only Brown men, but transfers and other causes resulted in the substitution of outsiders to fill the complement...
Bayard Wharton '22 has been awarded the Italian Silver Medal for Valor for saving the life of a British aviator who was drowning in the Brenta River. After two Italian soldiers had been drowned in an attempt to rescue him, Wharton swam out to the aviator who was floundering in the swift current, and supported him until they reached shore. This medal is one of the highest awards given to foreigners by the Italian government, and can only be won by exceptional bravery...