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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Sent to British Front...
Captain Dunn, then a first lieutenant, was with his regiment all this time, except for one month in which he was sent to the British front near Armentieres. During his last six months in France he was commander of Company M of his regiment. Shortly before his return he was recommended for promotion but he did not actually get his captaincy until he arrived in this country, on July...
...undergraduate publications at Yale have been suspended. The "Daily News" has announced that, since all its editors but one were at the front and since men in the S. A. T. C. had no time for editing the newspaper, the next issue would appear after the war. The "News" was one of the leading college dailies. The Yale Literary Magazine, commonly known as the "Lit," after eighty years of continued publication has also been forced to cease publication. An attempt will be made to publish the "Record," the comic magazine of the university, in a quarterly number, but no other...
...back to where the assistant regimental adjutant was (somewhat behind the lines) after travelling over most of France, and spending a day each at Nancy and Paris. Then I found out that the Regiment was up at the front again, after only about three days of rest. So I started off after them; and finally, after riding all day on food transports, etc., got back to my company. They were camped on the reverse slope of a hill near the Vesle, in a regular inferno of noise, for there were batteries and batteries of guns on all sides as well...
...simple one, even for an efficient army officer. The men were not enlisted, but were voluntarily present for instruction. Discipline depended largely on their good will, and instruction had to combine the old fundamentals of the training of an American soldier and the new lessons of the western front. To those who appreciated the difficulties of the problem Captain Shannon made it all seen easy. In fact the work was easier for him than for most men for he had the faculty of at once inspiring co-operation and trust in those who worked with him and under...