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Another Boche aviator has been accounted for by D. E. Putnam '20, according to a dispatch received from France. This latest achievement makes the third German that Putnam has shot down since his arrival on the battle front two months ago. Putnam and others of his fellow airmen in the Lafayette Escadrille, have been taking advantage on the recent mild weather on the French front and have continued their brilliant exploits by bringing down three enemy machines in all, losing none themselves...
...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...