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...April 27, 1917, six French officers arived at Harvard to take charge of the training of students here for battle in France. During the months that followed, their stimulating leadership and helpful criticism were of inestimable value to those members of the University who came in contact with them. Five of these six officers were veterans of the battle of the Marne, and all of them stood for that spirit which made it possible for the French army to turn back the first, and what later proved to be the crucial surge of the Germans into France...
...custom of rooming in the Yard during the last year at college has grown up. The purpose of this is not to force unnatural friendships, for companionship with an uncongenial man can never be engendered by artificial means. But it is based on the fact that the continual contact, even though entirely superficial, which comes from constantly rubbing up against other members of the class tends to produce a distinct Class consciousness. If this end is to be gained, it is essential that not a fraction, but the whole of the Class of 1921 room in the Yard next year...
...effective way of accomplishing both these ends must be to establish more intimate and organic contact with the outside world. The University must not be a social luxury for the few; it must seek to integrate its own life with the efforts towards adult education in the outside world...
...resources, attended the Harvard Medical School, graduated therefrom in 1884, and afterwards served in the Boston City Hospital as house officer. One of his chiefs there has told me that General Wood was one of the most efficient surgical internes with whom he ever came in contact. Becoming restless at the inactivity in Boston of the position of a young doctor struggling to get practice he soon decided to enter the army as surgeon, and in 1885 was sent to the Mexican border. There he served under General Miles and more immediately under Captain Lawton in the pursuit of Geronimo...
...service men signed cards signifying their desire to join the Shannon Post. President Lowell opened the meeting by saying that it was peculiarly appropriate that the Post should be named after Colonel Shannon, who was "one of the most gallant men we have come in contact with." He then introduced Professor W. B. Munro...