Word: borders
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...from the University in 1916, entered the regular army in the fall of that year, and obtained his commission as second lieutenant in the infantry in the following November. He later entered the Army Service School at Leavenworth, Kansas, and was ordered to report for service on the Mexican border with the Third United States Infantry, later being transferred to the Sixteenth Infantry. Last June Lieutenant Peters went to France with the first contingent in command of a machine gun company. He was advanced to the rank of Captain last December...
...dwarfed all other events of the year. The College work had, however, been hampered earlier by two incidents which, in ordinary times, would be regarded as serious,--namely, the epidemic of infantile paralysis along the Atlantic Coast and the military service of many of our students on the Mexican Border. Several colleges retarded their opening because of the epidemic. It is a satisfaction to report that the decision of the Harvard authorities to open on time, made after careful deliberation and upon expert advice, was vindicated. Only one student contracted poliomyelitis throughout the college year, and it is probable that...
...come into close harmony. National and temperamental differences seemed so strong that a unity of purpose on the Western Hemisphere was looked upon as a distant dream. Such differences, however, melt away when a question of duty to do the right clearly presents itself. As a poet has said, border, breed or birth are small matters in such a contingency. It is a glorious thing to know that through the awful destruction and havoc which this war is effecting we are at least coming to know, to understand, and to appreciate our brothers of the South and that they...
Every Philadelphia contingent not yet ordered out of the city is expected to participate actively in the exhibition. The local National Guard regiments, recently mustered out of the Federal service after their duty on the Mexican border will be represented in force and more than 1,500 men will be seen in action...
...Liberty Bonds have been received by the undergraduate committee and may be obtained at the CRIMSON Building between 7 and 7.30 o'clock this evening. A member of the committee will be on hand to distribute them. The design of the buttons is a red circle with a blue border, with a blue figure of "Liberty" in the centre. The inscription reads: "Get behind the Government. Liberty Loan...