Word: dispatch
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...dispatch has been received from Paris stating that John Edward Boit '12, a member of the American Ambulance Field Service, has been cited for distinguished service performed last September. Boit went to France in the spring of 1916 and has been in the second section of the American Ambulance Field Service, driving at Verdun, Hill 304, Dead Man Hill, and more recently in the Argonne forest. He was cited for carrying wounded men from the firing zone under heavy shelling from the German batteries...
...organization known as "The Motor-cycle Minute-Men of America," has been formed. Its purpose is to enroll, instruct and train the motorcyclists of America so that they will be fitted for active service on short notice. Their chief duty will be that of dispatch riding and as in case of war there will be an immediate need of men trained in this work, all those who are enrolled would be called for active service...
Local motorcycle companies are to be formed in all colleges, cities and towns throughout the country for education and practice in dispatch riding, signal work, first aid, scouting, artillery fire observation, mobile machine gun squadrons, and other branches of activity in which experienced motorcycle riders have proved of inestimable value in Europe...
...found cause for complaint in the fact that there had been no previous discussion of the question. We regret no less than he that, due to the suddenness with which the issue was presented, such discussion was impossible. There were only four days between the receipt of the first dispatch from Washington and the date set for the testimony of the delegates sent by the various colleges. Obviously, then, there was no time for wide debating on the subject. The CRIMSON'S stand was determined at a meeting of the board on Monday evening and in order to offset...
Norman Prince '08, son of a Boston banker, and graduate of the University Law School, has been killed at the front while fighting for France. The dispatch cabled from a hospital somewhere near the front, reached his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frederick H. Prince, Pride's Crossing, day before yesterday. The message gave no particulars...