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...June 12 the alumni will gather in Huntington Hall for a farewell to the Rogers Building, which is for nearly half the alumni the only Technology that they knew as students. In the afternoon it is proposed to have a motor boat service from the Boston side, approaching the new buildings from that point of view that shows them most effectively, the Basin, and on landing there will be undergraduates guides to show the visitors the new halls, classrooms and laboratories. The day will also be the culminating point of the student exercises of Senior week. The various visitors...
...waiting list besides. Lieutenant Renwick, who is in charge of the corps, hopes to carry out an idea of General Wood's which would make the company an "armored car corps"; that is, every one in the company would have a place on an armored motor truck. This would make a unique corps, which could be carried on in the form of an experiment for the United States army. In order to accomplish this, however, funds must be raised for two more trucks, the company possessing only three at present. New men are being taken in all the time...
...transportation organization of the Ambulance, known as the field service, is under the active direction of a man-long identified with Harvard--A. Platt Andrew, and more than fifty other Harvard men are serving or have served in this branch of work. At present there are over 150 motor-cars in the field service, which has won by its efficiency the distinction of sole charge of the transport of wounded in two important sectors of the line. One American section as a whole and nearly a score of American drivers have won the coveted decoration--the Croix de Guerre--which...
...suggest that since already several of our motor-ambulances carry upon their sides the names of their doners--Wellesley College, St. Paul's, Phillips Andover, Pomfret, and a number of other schools, it would be not only a welcome addition to the service but a gratification to us at home and at the front if a few more cars bearing the name of Harvard could be sent out in that great and merciful work...
...Within the next few weeks we shall need for our field service about 20 additional volunteers who are good motor car drivers. We should like to have such men enlist for a longer period, but we will accept enlistments for four months. The American Ambulance will furnish the automobiles and repairs, the French army furnishes food and lodging. The men must, themselves, provide for their own transportation to and from France, their own uniforms and their incidental expenses, which need not amount to more than $10 or $15 per month, and the aggregate expenditure for four months, including transportation both...