Word: battalion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Memorial Scholarship is in memory of Andre Cheronnet-Champollian, the third Harvard man to fall in the War and a private in the French infantry, who volunteered for service in 1914 although an American citizen, of Major Edward Ball Cole, who commanded the 1st (later the 6th) Machine Gun Battalion of the 4th Marine Brigade and died of wounds received at Belleau Wood, and of Elbert Walker Shirk, a lieutenant, junior grade, in the Navy Flying Corps, who died...
...years old, the son of a farmer living at Alliston, Ont. He worked on his father's homestead until he was 19, when he entered the University of Toronto. Graduating from medical school, he entered the Canadian Army, became a battalion surgeon with the rank of captain. Wounded at Cambrai, invalided to England, he returned to Canada in 1920 and became a laboratory assistant at the Western University, London, Ont., where by chance he soon became interested in the internal secretions of the pancreas from the so-called " islands of Langerhans " (TiME, April 21), and began experimenting with methods...
...located 16 miles south west of Baltimore and in addition to the thousand R. O. T. C. infantry, cavalry and artillery students, it will serve as training quarters for a large contingent of Citizen Military Training Camp students. The Twelfth and Thirty-Fourth Regiments of Infantry and one battalion of the Sixth Field Artillery will also be quartered at the post...
There is considerable competition to enlist in the battalion of editors, and that, too, is a surprising thing. I met a young undergraduate who informed me that he was one of sixty-five competitors for the post of editor. He was undergoing a strenuous ten weeks of trial and emulation, so strenuous that already some forty had fallen out of the race. At Oxford I doubt if you would find six undergraduates who would spend ten minutes competing for the post of editor. In fact, my recollection is that at the close of the academic year, when the editorial chair...
Three Hundred and Sixth Machine Gun Battalion...