Word: general
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...addition, General Pershing reports that Lieutenant Douglas Campbell '17, captain of the University gymnastic team last year, shot down last Sunday an enemy biplane containing two officers, making his second enemy plane destroyed...
There is something singularly tragic in his death. He was just about to be retired for a time to use his astonishing ability in the training of our new birdmen, and General Pershing had expressed a wish that "Lufbery had his last flight." The strange irony of fate made Pershing's wish fulfil itself, not in the spirit, but in the letter...
...sort of serial anthology. With much work that was of course mediocre, it also printed a good deal of very exceptional verse by such poets as S. Foster Damon, Robert Hillyer, William Norris, and B. Preston Clark. This was perhaps one of the Advocate's golden ages. But in general, undergraduate writers of verse are better than undergraduate writers of prose, and perhaps always will be; and for that reason the current issue of the Advocate is all the more remarkable...
...this occasion the alumni will gather in the Hewitt University Quadrangle for the patriotic exercises on Tuesday afternoon. Addresses will be made by President Hadley and others. An added feature, which promises to be the most effective yet arranged, will be the announcement of class war records. Beyond a general appeal to the alumni to help bring the university's war record up to date for this purpose, no details as to the character of this ceremony have been given out. "Retreat" and salute to the flag will conclude the exercises...
...General Order...