Harvard Class Day Sombre Amid War Shadow at Commencement
Harvard Class Day observes 98 seniors, four killed in action, with many in uniform. A restrained crowd sees slips of color and a muted ivy oration by Sewell Durston while the yard empties and old rituals fade into a somber remembrance of World War I casualties.
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Tribune Aes
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Saunders
Mar Suis
George Percy
Billy” Murray
John Franklin
Merrill Wiggin
Fredetick
Stevens
Thomas C. Thatcher
Cambridge
Thatcher Nelson
Ralph C. Brown
Naval Training School
Stoughton Hall
Holworthy
Boylston Street
Sever Hall
Sewell N. Durston
Harvard Square
University Hall
Pisco
Widener
Eladony
John Hare
Johnny Kettd
Lee
Yale Class Day as War Looms Over Commencement
At Yale on June 18 a small senior cohort marched in black caps and gowns as most of the class remains in active service. The quiet campus ritual honored the war effort with memorial wreaths and an alumnus-filled ceremony, ending with Hadley and Clarke praising Yale’s wartime contribution and the new service flag showing 1,224 students in war service.
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New Haven
Yule
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Eli
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University
France
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Vance MeCormick
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Hadley
Washington
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Supreme Court of New York
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New York
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Mich
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Bethel
Conn
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Mass
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Auburndale
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LL. D. Yonkers
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Charles P. Leonard
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Plantsville
Payson Merrill
Henry A. Stimson
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Hartford
H. S Wayne
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Leonard Wood
Justice Clarke
Tris
Tusticn Clarke
Fresh Air Fund sends first 1918 vacation party
The Tribune Fresh Air Fund launched its summer program with eighty-two crippled girls sent to the Devereux Home in Deposit, New York, for a three week country vacation. The fund aims to aid 225 more children like them and reports 20,000 others in need of country vacations this summer. Contributions at six dollars for two weeks will sponsor a child’s outing.
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Tribune Fresh Air Fund
Erie Railroad
Deposit
N.Y
Devereux
Hubert and
Collister
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First Avenue
Catskill Mountains
Delaware River
Fresh Air Fund
Open Air Entertainment by Junior Red Cross in Mount Kisco
Westchester Junior Red Cross hosts an afternoon program June 28 at Miss Martha Leonard's Theatre Mount Kisco. Mrs Arthur Inelin Mrs Edwin Merrill with Mrs Lea Luquer and Mrs Henry Howe arrange a program by children featuring old French songs dances and an allegorical pantomime The Fatherless Children of France Proceeds fund supplies for Children's Red Cross workrooms in Westchester public schools.
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Junior Red Cross
Westchester
Martha Leonard
Mount Kisco
Mra
Arthur Inelin
Edwin G. Merrill
Lea Luquer
Henry W. Howe
France
Red Cross
Wife to Fill Husband Pulpit in Union Church
Springfield June 18 Mrs Frank L Briggs wife of the Union Evangelical Church pastor has been invited to fill the pulpit and take pastoral duties while her husband serves abroad in the M G A service.
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Springfield
Mass
Frank L. Briggs
Union Evangelical Church
Thia City
Mrs Dewey Leads War Memorial Fund Drive
Mrs George Dewey widow of the late admiral has given 500 for the first brick of a Y W C A war workers home in Washington to be funded by American women subscriptions. Mrs Josephus Daniels spoke at the Washington Y W C A about housing war workers and morale, with delegates from around the world attending the first annual War Work Council meeting.
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Washington
America
George Dewey
Iate
War Workers of America
Josephus Daniels
Secretary of the Navy
Howard Morse
New York
Bryn Mawr
Diplomas Granted to 93 at Altman School Graduation
Ninety three youths and girls received diplomas yesterday at the Benjamin Altman store, marking a vocational and academic completion after work duties. Dr W L Ettinger praised self knowledge, reverence and responsibility while M Fried of Altman Co urged laws for continuation schooling. Students will resume morning classes from 9 to 10, studying standard elementary work and vocational subjects, with girls’ smocks to be sent to French peasant children. Henry MacDonald delivered the commencement address.
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Benjamin Altman
Thirty-fourth Street
Fifth Avenue
Ut Boya
W. L. Ettinger
M. Fried
B. Altman Copany
Euvetion
Henry MacDonald
Mayor's Committee of National Defence
Admiral Sir Alfred Paget Aged Naval Officer and Knighted Hero
Sir Alfred Paget son of General Lord Alfred Paget, born March 20 1852, joined the English navy in 1865. He rose to vice admiral in 1911 and served in the Egyptian and Sudan campaigns from 1882 onward. Paget was naval attaché at Washington 1906 to 1899, knighted in 1911, and awarded the Distinguished Service Order in 1917.
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Sir Alfred (Wyndham) Paget
Alfred Henry Paget
Washington
John Bottomley Buried at St Andrew's Church
Funeral services for Joan Hottomlay, child vice-president of the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company, were held yesterday at St. Andrew's Church Witc Street and Fifth Avenue. The Rev George St Van De Water officiated. Interment followed in the Episcopal cemetery at Southampton Long Island. Mr Bottomley died Sunday at the Post Graduate Hospital of pneumonia at age seventy one. The family included the two sons Willam Lawrence and John Francis with no daughters.
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Joan Hottomlay
Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company
St. Andrew's Church
Witc
Street
Fifth Avenue
Zev. George
van de Water
Willam Lawrence
John Francis
Clement Foster Burnap
Susanne Meredith Bottomley
Southampton
Longsland
Bottomley
Edward Cornplanter Seneca Chief Dead at Yattaraugus
Word arrived from the Yattaraugus Indian Reservation that Edward Cornplanter, chief of the Senecas and descendant of the famed Revolutionary Troquois leader Cornplanter, has died. The article notes his education and belief in restoring pagan customs.
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Edward Cornplanter
Auburn
Yattaraugus
Follies at New Amsterdam Praises Urban and Rogers
Drama review by Heywood Broun lauds the current Follies at New Amsterdam Theatre. Urban’s net lighting, Lillian Lorraine’s singing aside, Will Rogers and Eddie Cantor provide strong humor, Marilyn Miller shines yet moves with formal dancing, and the production features notable numbers like A Miniature and I’ll Pin My Medal on the Girl I Left Behind.
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George Sokan
England
Ireland
Mr. Ziegfeld
Rogers
Devil
Eddie Cantor
Marilyn Miller
New York
Fairbarks
Ali
Berlin
Henry Miller
Ann Pennington
Frisco
Will Rogers
Bronx
Miss Bowen Weds Gillie In Presbyterian Church
Miss Gladys Bowen daughter of Mr and Mrs Thomas Bowen of Riverside Drive was married to Robert Bruce Gillie last evening at the Presbyterian Church West Street. The Rev Dr John R Mackey performed the ceremony and a reception followed at the Bowen home.
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Gladys Bowen
Thomas Bowen
Riverside Drive
Robert Bruce Gillie
Presbyterian Church
West Street
John R. Mackey
Bowen
Lois Scott Hall to Wed Captain Herrick of New York
Miss Lois S Hall and Mrs Lois Hall announce the engagement of Lois Scott Hall to Captain Gererdus Post Herrick son of the late Eliny J Merrick and Mrs Herrick of New York Mrs Hall is granddaughter of the late Rev Dr John Hall of the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church in New York City.
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Soiton Rast
East Sixty-first Street
Lois Scott Hall
Gererdus Post Herick
Eliny J. Merrick
Herrick
East Seventy Third Street
Miss Alexander Marries Lieut. P. K. Rhinelander
Miss Helen G. Alexander daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry M. Alexander wed Lieutenant Philip Kip Rhinelander U S A at 6 pm in St Thomas chantry. Bishop Philip M Rhinelander and Rev Howard C Robbins officiated. A reception followed at 15 East Thirty sixth Street. Guests included Mrs Cornelius Vanderbilt and Grace Vanderbilt.
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Helen G. Alexander
Henry Martyn Alexander
Philip Kip Rhinelander
St. Thomas's Church
Philip M. Rhine- Sander
Pennsylvania
Howard C. Robbins
Adelaide Kip Rhinelander
Geraldine I. Adee
Marion
Carey Dinsmore
Cornelia Kip
William V. B. Kip
Walton Oakley
Shors
Philip Rhinelander
Lothrop M. Weid
Louis Gordon Pooler
Lay Martin
Tennant Rhinelander
Foreign Service
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Grace Vanderbilt
James W. Gerard
Albert Gleaver
Wiliam B. Dinsmore
Jerome N. Bonaparte
de Forrest Grant
W Tarner Washington
T. J. Oakley Rhinelander
W. Fugene Parsons
Philip Rhinlander
William Alexander
Ernest Adee
W. Rhinelander Stewart
Frank Pollock
Miss Alice Chambers to Wed Ensign Fleitmann
Announcement of engagement between Miss Alice Ely Chambers daughter of Dr and Mrs P Llewellyn Chambers of 866 Madison Ave New York and Ensign William M Fleitmann Jr aviation section A R son of Mr and Mrs William M Fleitmann of 12 East Sixty seventh Street New York and Bayshore L I The couple’s families are named including relations to former New York Mayor Smith Ely Ensign Fleitmann recently received his commission at Bayshore Aviation Field and will begin six weeks of flight training before deployment to France
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L. 4
Alice Ely Chambers
P. Llewellyn Chambers
Madison Avenue
Ensign
William M. Fleitmann
Jr Aviation Section
East Sixty-seventh Street
New York
Bayshore
L. J
William HW. Ely
West Fifty-seventh Street
Smith Ely
Ensign Fleitmann
Bayshore Aviation Field
Col Flo
France
Will of Robert B Cortland Probate Divided Between University and Relatives
Van Cortlandt Estate in White Plains reports that Robert B Cortland probate was granted after an agreement with Columbia University and his siblings. One will left the entire about 2 million to the university. the second split the estate with roughly half to Columbia and the other half to the brother and sister, the sister living in Isle of Wight England.
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White Plains
Robert B. Cortland
Mount Kisco
Columbia University
van Cortland
Ise of Wight
England
Plays and Players in New York Theatre circuit shift next week
A bill overhaul at the Actors and Authors Theatre will drop two current one act plays and add two new sketches next week. Shubert chain plans four more venues in New York next season. Marionette Theatre Puppets set four special shows at 49 Vendam Street this week and next. Florence Reed continues as slave girl in her new play pending completion.
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Shuberts
New York
Comedy Theatre
Art
Apollo
Forty-seventh Street
Broadway
Fortyfourth Street
The
Lyric
Vendam Street
Orlando and the Dragon
Chu Chin Chow
Philadelphia
Shubert
Florence Reed
Joint Relief Benefit at Lexington Theatre for War Relief
An entertainment benefit for the Association des Anciens Eleves du Conservatoire Nationale de Paris and war relief will be held at Lexington Theatre on Monday evening June 24. Promoted by Mrs Newbold Le Hoy Edgar Mrs Cameling Vanderbilt Clarence H Mackay Frederic R Condert and Miss 2ingleur of the Liberty Film Committee. The program features Muratore and the French Military Band and a United States official war film as part of Following the Flag to France. The program girls include Lucille Baldwin Rosalie Bloodgood Cathleen Vanderbilt Margaret Schroeder Audrey Hoffman Marian Tiffany Ruth King Madeleine Dahlgren Geraldine McAdee and Milotte Demorest.
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Association Des Anciens Eleves du Conservatoire Nationale de Paris
Army and Navy
Lexington Theatre
Newbold le Hoy Edgar
Cameling Vanderbilt
Clarence H Mackay
Frederic R. Condert
Miss 2Ingleur
Liberty Film Committee
France
Lucille Baldwin
Rosalie Bloodgood
Cathleen Vanderbilt
Margaret Schroeder
Audrey Hoffman
Marian Tiffany
Ruth King
Madeleine Dahlgren
Geraldine McAdee
Milotte Demorest
Week's Death Rate Lowest In City History
The city reports its lowest weekly death rate on record at 10.27 deaths per thousand, announced by Dr. Dana Hubbard, director of the Bureau of Public Education and Board of Health. Officials attribute the unusually low figure to continued cool weather, noting it surpasses 1917's then-low month of 11.83 per thousand.
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Dana Hubbard
Bureau of Public Education, Board of Health
Quaker Teacher Plans Appeal After NYC Dismissal
Miss Mary S. MacDowell Brook lyn high school teacher and Society of Friends member was dismissed by a four member Board of Education committee for views on the war. Her counsel John P. Broomell said the appeal will go to Dr. John H. Finley State Commissioner of Education or to the Supreme Court.
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Brooklyn
Society of Friends
New York City
Board of Education
John P. Broomell
MacDowell
Broomell
John H. Finley
State Commissioner of Education
Supreme Court
Mistress and maid celebrate 25 years of service in New York
Hielena Schwartz long-time maid at 240 West Forty-seventh Street receives a reception hosted by Mrs. Rebecca Jacobson. The 25 year record earns an orchestra and entertainers as Schwartz plans to keep serving the Jacobsons for another quarter century while knitting for the Red Cross.
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Hielena Schwartz
New York
Paris
Rebecca Jacobson
West Forty-seventh Street
Gamnain
Jacobson
The
Red Cross
City Markets Plan Conference on Food Supply Reform
Heads of city bureaus dealing with food supply will meet Monday night June 24 to relaunch a citizen market conference. The aim is to correct inadequate market conditions seen as a chief cause of high prices and to develop borough based schemes. Attending are Cyrus C. Miller Charles A. Beard Jonathan C. Day I D Cooper and J P Warbasse.
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Charles A. Beard
Bronway
Cyrus C. Miller
Bureau of Transportation and Distribution
Bureau of Municipal Research
Jonathan C. Day
I. D. Cooper
Dairymen's League
J. P.warbasse
Cooperative League of America
Lambs Gambol at Camp Upton with Ferrar and Castles
Special Dispatch from Camp Upton reports the Lambs Gambol set for Sunday at the Liberty Theatre with General Bell’s announcement. Geraldine Ferrar and De Wolf Hopver headline next week’s Denot Brigade entertainment hosted by Mrs Irene Castle. A baseball game between visitors and officers is planned. Lt Col Adolphe Huguet is now a colonel in the National Army, previously commandant of the officers training school here.
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National Army
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Fifth Infantry
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Evan M. Johnson
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