Word: americans
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Lieutenant Douglas Campbell '17 holds the distinction of becoming the first ace whose training has been from start to finish conducted in American schools. Campbell, by downing his fifth opponent, has attained that honor and stands supreme among American flyers...
...return of the American Labor Mission, which, representing the Federation of Labor, has visited Great Britain and France, marks the completion of an errand whose importance can hardly be overestimated. Both as to the character of the delegates and the manner in which they carried themselves, sometimes under great provocation, our principal organization of workingmen is to be congratulated. No trained diplomatists could have done better. No other Americans in any walk of life could have exhibited a loftier patriotism...
Retrospection of the instruction given to members of the two military courses at the University this year presents two outstanding points. The observer at once perceives that the instructors are divided into two groups: first, the officers detailed by the French and American Governments to take charge of the training; second, the professors and instructors of the University who have volunteered their services in conducting the classes. Some of the latter we have seen appear with their beautifully shined puttees wrong end to. Others have walked the streets with eight inches of shoe-string dragging behind. Still others have come...
Lieut. Stearns of Boston died in an accident while a member of the American Aviation Corps in France. In his last two years in college he was captain of the rifle team...
...conference of the Association of Alumni Secretaries held last week in New Haven, that body, which periodically brings together for the discussion of their common problems the men who are directing the alumni work in American institutions of higher learning, gave special consideration to the question of alumni reunions in war-time. Indeed the entire conference illustrated the very point on which the discussion of this subject revealed complete unanimity--the point that every gathering together of college graduates at this time should subordinate all its interests to the one interest of the war. Nothing which did not bear upon...