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...their permanence; a Harvard Legion would have a transient membership. Then, too, we doubt the interest which the average student, occupied with many other activities, would take in such a branch organization. Let us support, the American Legion by all means, but let us support the founding of permanent local posts rather than create subordinate branches in the colleges...
...formation and its union with the National Legion. As a result of the recent convention at St. Louis, the plans for the organization of an American Legion of all men who have been in the service of the United States during the World War is well under way, and local branches are being formed in every state. A Massachusetts executive committee has been appointed, and is now completing its organization. It seems to me that a 'Harvard Legion,' of the many members of the University who took part in the war, should be formed at once, in conjunction with...
...time of the St. Louis meeting in November, we hope to have the national organization completed. Local posts are being formed in every part of the United States under the leadership of the committeemen appointed at St. Louis. It is our hope that every man who served in the Great War will join one of the branches, and we expect that the larger colleges will form units of their...
...Harvard graduates have played an important part in the organization of the Legion. G. G. Bacon '08 is the head of the Massachusetts committee and is in charge of the local organization in that State. G. C. Cutler '13, of Boston, C. G. Herbert '00, of Worcester, W. B. Cutting '00, of New Mexico, and B. H. Dibblee '99, of Boston, have all done important work in the Legion...
Elmer P. Kohler, professor of chemistry at the University, and Arthur A. Noyes, director of the Research Laboratory of Physical Chemistry at M. I. T., are the local representatives on the Research Fellowship Board of the National Research Council, the personnel of which has just been announced. The board is to have administration of a plan under which the Rockefeller Foundation has undertaken to co-operate with the Council in the promotion of fundamental research in physics and chemistry. The Foundation is to appropriate $500,000 to support research fellowships...