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HARVARD MEN TO DRIVE IN FRENCH AMBULANCES

Eight Sail on Manhattan for Service in War Zone, Partly for "Adventure," Partly to Aid France

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Eight Harvard men are among the 21 American volunteers who sailed Saturday on the liner Manhattan for service driving ambulances in France. The reason for their trip, they said, was partly for adventure and partly to help out France.

Two of them were A. Cameron Burrage III '41 and Lawrence W. Morgan '41, both of whom have left college. Burrage prepared at St. Marks and was captain of the Freshman polo team. Morgan is a Brooks graduate.

Average Age 28

Alexander McElwain '21, Howace W. Fuller '30, William G. Nickerson '31, John S. R. James '34, Wendell M. Hastings '35, and John W. Cutler '40 were among the other alumni who comprised the group whose average age is 28.

Burrage, just 21 and "the baby of the section," said that he was going for the adventure. A resident of 5 Linden Street until Christmas, he said that the force which compelled him to go was "something in my New England blood." Hastings, who found five years in a brokerage house tiring, stated that he was going for a "sabbatical," and that the expedition seemed like "a good excuse to get back to Europe." One of the three older men in the expedition, McElwain said: "I'm going to serve a good cause."

Paying their own expenses and working without compensation for the French Government, the group is in the party of the American Field Service in France, which aided 500,000 wounded in the last war.

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