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...number of officers, and these officers must be trained in schools similar to the unit established here. Members of the University, by joining this training unit, will be given the necessary instruction to fit them for commissions, and the advantages of such an intensive training over that obtained by enlisting in a volunteer force or in the militia are evident. Men who have an opportunity to be trained for officers should by all means render this more difficult service rather than enlist in the ranks...
...league magnates are considering a plan to employ their ball parks for football and to back the game financially, Professional football was played on Navin Field--the American Association grounds--in Detroit, last fall, and an agent of the Club is reported to have been in Chicago recently to enlist support for his undertaking from owners of major league clubs there. From Columbus and Indianapolis come reports of the impending formation of a professional football league composed of teams representing these cities; Akron, Canton, Cleveland, Toledo, Dayton and Cincinnati. The Chicago report speaks of another circuit consisting of elevens from...
Word was received yesterday from J. P. Brown '14 that the West's awake. He has been speaking at several Middle Western universities in an effort to enlist college men for the American Ambulance Field Service. Fifteen men have volunteered at the University of Wisconsin, 22 at Chicago, and 20 at Western Reserve. Many more recruits are expected. Recruiting offices have been established at all of these universities...
...across the ocean. They see old civilizations crumble, ideals in which they trusted vanish. In the work of restoration this nation will have a great part. College students in particular are beginning to realize that the responsibility will rest upon their generation, and that the task of reconstruction must enlist the knowledge and experience of educated...
Lines, who lived in Paris for many years, was one of the first of the college volunteers to enlist with the American Ambulance, going abroad when a member of the third-year class in the Law School. After serving the greater part of a year, during which he continued his studies as best he could, he returned and graduated with his class in June, 1915. Immediately he returned to France and resumed his duties at the front. During his work with the Ambulance, Lines had many narrow escapes from death and twice underwent operations for injuries contracted from heavy lifting...