Clipping ('LANYON AT MONTPELLIER') reports he received an appointment to attend the French university at Montpellier and had just arrived as of a letter dated March 5, matching the AEF's post-armistice university program (Jan-June 1919). No existing nearby event covers this specific posting; using M

Derived from dated newspaper clipping(s): media:1641. Curated 2026-08-17 against the existing event set; not independently re-verified against a primary source.

The document behind this record is the Carthage newspaper's printing of Lanyon's own letter home, received by his mother Mrs. S. D. Lanyon the day before publication (node:4276, media:1641). In it he describes the appointment as heavily competed for — '150,000 men tried to get it' — undertaken while waiting for his division to go home, with his outfit to be rejoined when it was ready to sail; his course as advanced French literature, possibly Moliere and other classic authors, with 'a good stiff course in diction and construction'; his lodging as a bedroom and salon at 50 francs a month, about $10, with the government paying all expenses and continuing full salary. The letter is recorded separately as testimony.