Word: enlist
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...spring because the team was disbanded upon the declaration of war before the spring recess. An informal nine was organized in the fall of 1917 which played regular games with the Radio School. McLeod was catcher and acting captain of this team. He left College early in April to enlist in the aero service and so was unable to take part in any of the games last spring. He had considerable experience as a shortstop on army teams at Rantoul...
Love left College in the fall of 1917 to enlist in the Marine Corps, and was sent to Paris Island for his training. In April, 1918, he was made a corporal, and was promoted to sergeant in August. At the battle of Blanc Mont Ridge in the Champagne Sector, early in October, Love was severely wounded. It is believed that Love's death was the result of these wounds, or that he returned to duty and was killed at Sedan...
Lieutenant Paul Borda Kurtz A.B. '16 was killed in action while flying near Toul, May 22, 1918. He was one of the first to enlist in the American Ambulance, becoming chief of Section 18, April 17, 1917. In May of the same year he was decorated with the Croix de Guerre for extraordinary heroism near Mort Homme at Verdun. In July of 1917 he left the Ambulance and enlisted in the American air service. That fall he was commissioned a 1st Lieutenant...
News was received in Cambridge last night of the death from pneumonia of Ensign Thomas Milton Hodgens, Jr., '20, of Greenwich, Conn., in New York City yesterday morning. At the outbreak of the war Hodgens left College to enlist in the Naval Reserve. In the fall of 1917 he returned to College on leave and enrolled in the Naval courses which were then given by the University...
...within draft age, including men over 21, will be accepted, provided that they have permission to enlist from their local boards...