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Professor Sidney Bradshaw Fay '96, Ph. D. '00 of Smith College, has been appointed lecturer in history at the University for the remainder of the year, to continue one of the courses formerly given by Professor Robert M. Johnston, official historian of the A.E.F., who died January...
Professor Sidney Bradshaw Fay '96 has been appointed lecturer in History at Harvard for the remainder of this year, to continue one of the courses for merly given Professor Robert M. Johnston, official historian of the A.E.F., who died on January 28. Professor Fay, who is now serving as a professor of History at Smith, has been from time to time a lecturer at the University and Harvard...
Professor Johnston's funeral rites will be observed in Appleton Chapel at noon today. The Reverend Prescott Evarts, Rector of Christ Church, Cambridge, will officiate...
...Professor Johnston's growing interest in military history led him eight years ago to sound out what was being done in that line in our army. In 1912, as chairman of the Military History Committee of the American Historical Association, he invited the General Staff to send representatives to address the association at its annual meeting at Boston. This led to the offering of a military history prize and to subsequent sessions at Association meetings devoted to military history. It led on the army side to Professor Johnston's being invited each year to lecture at our War College...
...strenuous effort involved in this huge task, and an attack of pneumonia which finally necessitated his discharge from active duty were direct causes of his death. Surely no soldier in the trenches was more plainly a victim of the great war than Professor Johnston. His is the latest name on Harvard's Roll of Honor...