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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Word has also been received that Lieutenant Francis P. Magoun '16 has been wounded flying on the western front. Last fall he was commissioned second lieutenant in the British Royal Flying Corps, as a result of his unusual skill and daring while fighting in the scouts' division of the flying corps. On December 6, 1917, he brought down a German aviator who had previously overcome 16 Allied planes...
...University Liberty Loan Committee has expressed the hope that all members of the Faculty, men in the Graduate Schools, or men who live at home will, when buying Liberty Bonds, accredit their amounts to the sum collected by that committee. Last fall Yale was credited with a collection $200,000 larger than that taken up in the University, because they arranged to have all their faculty members and the men of their Graduate Schools add their subscriptions to the total sum raised by the undergraduates of Yale College...
...Well, Copey, my twin brother was killed in France last week. You never knew him because he went to Yale, but he was a fine fellow. He would have been manager of the football team there last fall if he had stayed in college, and he was president of Scroll and Keys when he left for France. That is not an infallible proof that he was all right, but it shows what his own class thought of him, and you can take my word for it anyway, that you don't meet a man of his ability and kindness...
What will be done with the ground on which Dane Hall has stood has still not been decided by the Corporation, although it is certain that no new building will be built before next fall. Nothing definite concerning the headquarters of the Bursar next year has been determined. Until the end of this college year he will remain in the Varsity Club, where the offices of the Economies Department, formerly in Dane Hall, are also located. Captain Parker, commandant of the Ensign School of the First Naval District, who was forced to move on account of the fire, will continue...
...greatest thriller of the season is a brief scene in the front-line trench when companies of American and British soldiers climb over the top and fall in behind a wicked-looking tank that sweeps out across No Man's Land. It looks, sounds and smells like the real thing, and, as they say of circus features, is alone worth the price of admission...