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SOUVENIRS SENT RAF UNIT NAMED AFTER UNIVERSITY

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"E" squadron--nicknamed the "Harvard" flight--of the Royal Air Force unit stationed in Carberry, Manitoba, asked for some crimson pennants in a letter received at Phillips Brooks House yesterday.

Lieutenant Prior, commanding officer, wrote that his flight was using North American "Harvard" planes--whence the nickname--, but it was by the kindness of some Quaker postman that the letter ever reached Cambridge. It was addressed to "Harvard University, Pennsylvania."

P.B.H. sent the R.A.F. unit samples of stickers with the College seal and pennants.

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