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...practice marches were instituted. The entire Regiment participated in manoeuvres and a mock engagement at the estate of E. D. Brandegee '81 and on May 27 marched in the Preparedness Parade in Boston. On May 30 the Regiment at full strength, band, Sanitary Corps, Signal Squad and the motor cycle squad was reviewed and inspected by Major-General Leonard Wood, U. S. A., M.D., '84, in the Stadium and then mustered...
Although the millennium has not been reached, we do not believe that things have changed. The money line of distinction is no longer of great importance. Good fellowship is placed higher than a substantial check-book and an expensive motor car. Wealth still makes the path to popularity easier in certain circles, yet most of us at Harvard as well as most of us in America try to estimate men by their character rather than by their pocketbooks. We believe that "a man's a man for a' that...
...about midnight, on that Christmas night, Richard started out on his motor ambulance in the neighborhood of the battlefield. And, as he neared the scene, a shell struck him as he sat on his chauffeur's seat. The ambulance was wrecked. No one heeded. But next day another ambulance driver found the American boy's body buried under the ruins of the vehicle, and the French soldiers paid it such military honors as they could...
...American Ambulance Field Service offers a rare opportunity to college men to take a useful part in the war. It makes no pretense of being neutral but requires its members to be openly loyal to the cause of the Allies. Motor ambulances, in sections of 25 cars, are attached to various divisions of the French armies and do the work of the regular military field ambulances. Since the war began the cars have been used at the battle of the Marne, at Ypres during the great second battle, and along the Yser Canal, on the Somme, at Verdun, at Hartmansweilerkopf...
...committee has been formed to supply information regarding the American Ambulance Field Service, which is now operating motor ambulances with the French armies in France and in the Balkans. Members of the committee which is composed of the ambulance drivers now in the University, will be in Grays 17 daily between 4 and 6 o'clock, beginning tomorrow afternoon, and will see all men interested in the Service. Information may be obtained here as to expenses, time of service, army life and the other details of the work...