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For submitting the best essay on "Harvard Men in the Revolution", C. L. Lundin '29 was awarded the Patria Society $50 cash prize, it has been announced by Professor Samuel Eliot Morison '08 of the History Department. There were five manuscripts handed in for the Patria competition and of these, Lundin's essay was adjudged the best and that of W. H. Cleaver '29 given honorable mention.
Lundin made a careful survey of the military and naval war service records of Harvard graduates from 1775 to 1783 and found that eight of the 57 signers of the Declaration of Independence were alumni of the College, that General Artemas Ward, class of 1748, was the first Commander-in-Chief of the Continental army, and that 245 of 1361 living graduates saw active war service. Fifteen percent of the graduate body at this time were known as loyalists or "Tories" with another group of 250 recognized as of patriot sympathies although unqualified for military duty.
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