Word: americans
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Franco-Prussian War in 1870, Captain Amann was educated at the University of Paris, first in the Lycee Montaign and later in the Lycee Louis le Grand. Leaving the University at the age of 16, he entered the leather business and became connected with the Paris branch of an American leather concern. He began his two years military service in 1905, in which he rose to the rank of sergeant. In 1910, he passed examinations for a commission and was made a reserve 2nd lieutenant...
...owing to ill health he was sent to the interior to train recruits from the 1917 class for his regiment. Later he accompanied them to the Verdun Army School and while there last July, was ordered to report to Col. Azan in Boston, to aid in the training of American soldiers. He was at once assigned by Col. Azan to the "Iron Battalion" of Plattsburgers then in Cambridge, and later...
...being made by our troops, of compliments paid to them, and of German prisoners' surprise at seeing so many, are printed frequently and read widely. Stories of an opposite character are seldom even printed. The result on the average person can be none other than to elevate the untried American army above its experienced foes and allies...
...camps there is much interest in the proposed field day. At Ayer hundreds of men under such coaches as P. D. Haughton '99, Capt. C. A. Coolidge '17, and Capt. G. H. Hoban, a former All-American player from Dartmouth, are learning the rudiments of the game, and later in the season should make formidable aggregations. At Westfield and other camps in the middle and western part of the state preparation for the season is already well under way. From Westfield, the 1st Maine Heavy Artillery is to send a team against the informal University in Cambridge. In this regiment...
With the War and the World Series going on simultaneously, the American public is somewhat confused; it doesn't know which interests it more. To look or not to look at the sporting page, that is the question. The people of this nation have long been accustomed to make the week of the World Series an informal holiday when business, family, and other conventionalities become matters of secondary importance...