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Word has also been received that Lieutenant H. B. Willis '12, a member of the Lafayette Escadrille, is a prisoner in Germany, being captured at Verdun in August, 1917. He went to France as a member of an American ambulance unit, in which capacity he received the Croix de Guerre. He later entered the French air service as a member of the Lafayette Escadrille...
...since October the list of casualties among the University's men engaged in active service contains 12 deaths, as compared with 10 in the months from April 6 through September and 36 before the declaration of war by the United States. This brings the losses of University men since August, 1914, to a total...
...parliamentary fencing, he compelled and retained for the Nationalist minority the alliance with the great Liberal party which forced the passage of the Home Rule bill a few months before the outbreak of the war. Redmond was deprived of the consummation of his triumph by the great events of August, 1914, and he saw the progress attained by years of unremitting effort lost through the stubborn resistance of the Ulstermen and the excesses of the Sinn Fein revolutionists. Unembittered by these reverses, Redmond from the first counselled complete Irish co-operation in the British Empire's fight against Prussian militarism...
...this year which will be open to students of all first-class colleges, including those admitted by examination, in June. The Headquarters Office of the Corps has stated that two courses in Military Science will be held for a period of six weeks during the months of July and August. The work will be under the direction of Major Flynn, the officers of the French Mission and their assistants, and will consist of three weeks' training in barracks and three weeks in camp. It will start soon after Commencement Day, probably about July...
...Walker '09, of Newburyport. According to dispatches, the medals were awarded for courageous action in removing wounded men in the region of Monastir, between December, 1916, and October, 1917. The work of these men was particularly noteworthy during the period of heavy bombardment between March and August of last year...