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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...entire personnel of the Brown University ambulance unit, which entered the Italian sector on Sept. 16, 1918, has been decorated with the croce al merito di guerra, the croix de guerre of Italy. There are 32 men in the unit, of whom 15 are from Brown. It originally contained only Brown men, but transfers and other causes resulted in the substitution of outsiders to fill the complement...
...then, is to employ certain specialists at certain times or to maintain a staff of coaches the year round whose dominant characteristic is their mediocrity. Mediocrity is implied if only for the reason that the cost of maintaining permanently a group of men such as Haughton, Tad Jones, et al, would be altogether prohibitive--assuming they could be induced to devote all their time to athletics at any price...
Dorr was given the Medaglia Argento Al Valor Militare, the highest decoration for bravery conferred by the Italian Government to foreigners...
...following list of those University men who were awarded the Croce, al Merito di Guerpe includes one graduate. They were all decorated for highly creditable services during the Italian offensive of June 15 to 26: E. E. Allen, Jr., '21, F. L. A. Cady '21, K. Campbell '21, G. N. Carpenter '21, C. M. Clark '01, G. H. Dorr, 2d, '21, S. R. Droppers '20, J. H. Eaton, '21, C. W. Eliot, 2d, '20, W. B. Frothingham '21, H. F. Gibbs, Jr., '20, F. B. Lothrop '21, C. E. Masters '21, G. C. Noyes '20, G. M. Palmer...
...Al H. Woods, who produced, "The Rape of Belgium," once was active in the ten-twenty-thirty arena. Now Mr. Woods presents his plays on a $1.10, $2.20 and $3.30 scale, including war tax, but the stuff is the same--in the production at the Shubert, at least. From the first to the last curtain a lot of stage ordnance is exploded while brutal German officers are stalled and finally thwarted in their purpose to defile an American girl and a countess in the inevitable Belgian chateau...