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...Pellissier (Harvard S.B., 1904; A.M., 1909; Ph.D., 1913), a sergeant and about to become a lieutenant in the French Army, met his death in the operations on the Somme, August 29, last. A committee has been formed of members of the Faculty, the student body, the Alumni and friends of Leland Stanford Jr. University--where Pellissier was an assistant professor of Romance Languages--to raise the sum of $1,600 for a Pellissier Memorial. This is to take the form of an ambulance to be maintained for one year in connection with the American Field Ambulance Service in France. Contributions...
...American, and cannot be much in-sympathy with the things for which Prussia stands. He would probably have dealt with Germany about as Mr. Wilson did. It is not the fashion among nations to go to war until certain formalities have been complied with. In the month of August, 1914, the nations of Europe exchanged a good many more notes than Mr. Wilson has exchanged with Germany before they took up arms. What Mr. Hughes would have done, however, is only a matter of conjecture, for he has not dared to express his opinion, either on this...
...poetry is full of much sound and fury, signifying, no, not nothing, but the usual state of unrest in youthful, bosoms. The verse of Mr. Norris is even graceful, if nothing else; his "August Night" is an example of free verse more sincere and pleasing than is often found among the poems of the High Priestess of vers libre. Mr. Putnam translates a Horatian ode into blank verse; since Horace does better in a swinging meter, an appreciative translation loses interest. Mr. Parson's free verse seems strained and unhappy; the idea of the same poet's "Art" deserves...
...Cadet Basis," Mr. Nelson writes breezily of Plattsburg and succeeds in packing a great many reminiscences into his six pages. The atmosphere is true to life in every detail; but if Mr. Nelson had gone to the August camp he would have had no boiled fish...
...there was need of a man in the office on board, he was put to work there. On reaching Gallipoli Gallishaw was posted in B Company of the first battalion, which formed part of the Incomparable 29th Division, and went with them to the front some time in August. The battalion numbered 1,100 men when it landed in Gallipoli, but at the end of the campaign had diminished...