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...Yard Dash.--R. G. Croft, W. C. Ferguson, H. R. Ford, A. W. Garrick, L. H. Gordon, H. K. Gray, H. Hungerford, G. B. Kaign, D. B. Lourie, J. A. Ross, R. G. Scarlett, F. H. Speer, W. E. Stevenson, J. C. Taylor, G. F. Tinker...
...Ford was spinning rapidly over the smooth road from Kilis on Aintab. A few minutes before, we had passed the turn in the road and the stone bridge where Perry and Johnson, the American "Y" secretaries, were killed in 1920, and our chauffeur had pointed out near the road the grave of the Nationalist Turkish leader, Shahin Bey, who had deplored the deed committed by his men, and bad himself been killed almost at the game place, during the French advance...
When we were taken to the college, we rode the half mile from the Hospital in our Ford and entered the campus though the college age. But we were cold that people had not been able to do this for nearly a year, and were shown the trenches by which the college had communicated with the city all through the siege. The campus is marked off by walls and trenches, the surrounding wall is pierced for rifle and for machine gun fire, and big guns are still in their places on the top of the hill, pointing in all directions...
Jeremiah D. M. Ford has taught French and Spanish at the University since 1985, except for a brief period in the nineties when he was in residence at the University of Paris. He holds the famous Smith professorship, previously occupied by Longfellow and James Russell Lowell. He is a fellow the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and is recognized as one of the leading American authors on Spanish literature...
Dean Pound and Professor Ford will go as regular representatives of the University. Professor Kennelly will go under the auspices of a committee of American universities interested in exchanging with France professors of engineering and applied science...