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According to the World Almanac, out of the 396,619 living college alumni of this country approximately 17 percent were in the service. On the other hand, of the living alumni and undergraduates of the University, Yale and Princeton, 36, 38, and 45 percent respectively were in the Army, Navy and auxiliary forces. Princeton's leadership is not great, when the large numbers of foreign students and men over military age in the graduate schools of the University, and to a lesser degree Yale, are taken into consideration. The University and Princeton each had approximately 53 per cent of their...
...primary suture' system of surgery; and to make it effective it was necessary to carry on even up at the front lines. This new system was not begun until last June; by it a wounded man is well in three weeks, instead of six months, and almost ninety percent of the operations are successful...
...Allies, or in the various auxiliary branches such as Ambulance, Red Cross, or Y. M. C. A., during the war. This total does not include those men in the S. A. T. C. or other units who would not, under normal conditions, have been at the University. Forty-seven percent of--the men were commissioned as officers in the branch of the service in which they served, and 284 appear to date on they Roll of Honor of men who gave their lives in the service. One hundred and sixteen were decorated, for their heroic actions...
Almost twenty percent of the total number of men from the University who have been in the armed services of this country and the Allies are members of the Harvard Club of New York. According to Mr. Francis R. Appleton '75, president of the Club, who gave the figures to a CRIMSON reporter yesterday, the Harvard Club of New York has 1488 men on its service record. 900 more men from the club were engaged in an auxiliary service of some sort. This is almost exactly a third of the total on the University's auxiliary service record...
...total number of men from this club who took an active part in the war is therefore 2,388. This is over forty seven percent of the entire resident and non-resident membership of the club, 5,060, and is believed to be a record for service among college clubs...