CLASS OF 1885

Prof. Herbert D. Foster, who has been for some time giving addresses before the various army camps and cantonments in this country, was selected by the Army Department to go overseas and take charge of all the work in history for our soldiers in France. The work may last for a year, and Foster sailed from New York early last February. He arrived at Beaune, France, on February 22, and immediately received an appointment as "Acting Director College Letters Science. For some time his work was very strenuous, beginning at 8 a. m. and continuing till 11 p. m. He had a staff of seventeen instructors in history, and was soon appointed as head of the Department of History of A. E. F. University and of all work in history in the army schools in France. His duties required him to visit schools, help hold institutes, and train classes for teachers. He recently took a trip to the war zone and has written home an interesting account of that trip, from which the following is quoted: —

"We get excellent food and best of rooms and beds in this trip, and travel in first class cars. Any extra expense is borne by Y. M. C. A., but U. S. A. gives us free transportation and rooms in the occupied zone and we pay most reasonably for food. * * * * Germans polite and subservient, and of course give good quarters because U. S. Government takes whatever it needs and pays for it. It is no virtue on the part of Germany, or credit to them. They look rosy and well fed and content to be licked and paid for work instead of being in trenches. * * * * I have just passed through the devasted area around Chateau Thierry, which brought home desolation to me. I wish everybody could realize the difference be tween devastated, heroic France and untouched, prosperous, and dangerous Germany, with their smirking countenances to the doughboys."

Fosten's address is:—A. E. F. University, Beaune, Cote d'Or, France. A. P. O. 909.

Secretary, Edwin A. Bayley, 18 Tremont St., Boston