Word: firing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Hearth Fire," a comedy in four acts, written by Miss Rita Creighton Smith, a student in English 47, will be presented for the first time tonight. Professor Baker will take part in the production, playing a minor role. The cast follows: Mrs. Harmon, Miss Vianna Knowlton, 1917 Her Children: Caroline Lord, Miss Frederica Gilbert, 1914 John Harmon, W. Butterfield Uc. Philip Harmon, H. H. Clark Eleanor Woodbridge, Miss Edith Noyes Gerald Lord, J. T. C. McNamara '20 Anne Lord, Miss Constance Flood, 1916 Cynthia Woodbridge (Eleanor's daughter), Miss Agnes Johnston Ashton Delafield (John's stepson), J. L. Hotson...
...hours after he was wounded in action with the American forces in France on March 13, Captain Archibald Roosevelt '17 lay in a muddy trench under fire, suffering great agony from a shrapnel wound in the knee and a broken arm, according to a letter received by Dr. Joshuah Hartwell. The letter contains the first definite news regarding the extent of Captain Roosevelt's wounds and the circumstances under which they were received...
Roosevelt, the letter explains, was wounded at 5 o'clock in the morning, but until 7 o'clock that night the heavy German artillery fire made it impossible to remove him with any degree of safety. At the hospital it was found that his left arm had been broken and that shrapnel had entered his left kneecap. An operation, however, has put him in excellent condition...
Recent dispatches from France report the decoration with the croix de guerre of Private Richard Van Wyck Buel '18, of Section 642 of the U.S.A. Ambulance Corps. Buel received the cross for bravery under fire in an engagement on the Aisne during the last week of February. He was sent to the front-line trenches, it is said, to rescue men suffering from an unusually severe gas attack, and was wounded by a German shell while in performance of his duty. He was awarded the medal while in the base hospital on March...
...would require a flood of sentiment to convince one's reason or taste that Dane Hall in its present condition is a thing of beauty. Even before the fire, that building was entirely unsuited to its surroundings; the invasion of broad streets and the subway made it seem anachronistic. Yet in spite of its lack of the artistic, in spite of its being the home of the Bursar, Dane Hall had a certain charm. It could always glance over at Matthews or peer round the corner at Weld and put those two to shame from the standpoint of personal attraction...