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President Hibben of Princeton has had conferred upon him recently the order of Saint Sava of the second class (Grand Officer), "in recognition of the valuable services rendered by him to the Serb-Croat-Slovine Nation," by His Royal Highness Prince Regent Alexander. The insignia of the order was bestowed upon him by S. G. Grouitch, the minister to the United States from that kingdom...
...Union Boat Club has entered an eight and a four-oared crew, and a single sculler, in the English Royal Henley Regatta starting June 30. The party, 22 in all, will leave Boston today for New York to sail on the Rotterdam. The voyagers will arrive in England about June...
...Italian Army will be represented at the Commemoration at the University on May 30 in honor of the Harvard war dead by Marquis Vittorio Asinari di Bernezzo, the Military Attache for the Royal Italian Embassy at Washington. Word to this effect has been received at the University from the Italian Rmbassy...
With the advent of the war in 1914, he was one of the first to enlist, and served with the Royal Welsh Fusiliers for five years, both in France and in Palestine, and for meritorious conduct was awarded the Military Cross and advanced to the rank of captain. This long period of carnage and fighting turned his mind to the serious aspects of the struggle, and his poems and letters began to deal with "the political errors and insincerities for which the fighting men are being sacrificed," with the result that his case came up for discussion in the House...
When the war broke out in 1914, Mr. Sassoon enlisted immediately in the Royal Welsh Fusiliers as a private, and in the following five years rose to the rank of captain. He was wounded three times and decorated with the Military Cross. His experiences entirely changed his point of view, and he began to interest himself in the political aspects of the struggle, and a letter of his on this subject was the cause of a debate in the House of Commons in July...