Word: fall
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...next year McLeod took part in the usual baseball practice in the fall, but was unable to play in games during the 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...
...become a reality, and the conviction created from experience that the University is the proper place to provide the requisite technical training. Hence, the present chaotic ideas upon the system and methods to be employed will, perforce, have to be straightened out before the opening of the colleges next fall. In the meantime it is very essential that such problems as the one already discussed be decided one way or the other. In short, the universities and colleges throughout the country must not be made the object of experimentation if previous solutions can prevent...
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...
Princeton University is to hold three Field Artillery R. O. T. C. courses during the spring term which begins on April 2. These courses will be in preparation for the Field Artillery Unit which is to be started next fall, and are to be taken by men who expect to become members of the Unit. Academic credit will be given for the work done this spring...
...final term of a year which has been unique in the history of the University commences today. Although the college year was divided into three periods by governmental requirements last autumn, subsequent events have chanced to distinguish each term as different from the others. The greater part of last fall was passed in energetic preparation for war service. The soldier-student was the ordinary, the civilian student the extraordinary. The second term was essentially one of transition. The uniform gradually became less and less familiar. Those forms of college activities which the war has effectively stopped were in process...