Word: goings
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...special order of Major-General Barnett, Commandant of the Marine Corps, the members of the University Marine Unit will be honorably discharged on Monday, December 16, for the convenience of the government. The only other course open to the men is that they may go to Paris Island, South Carolina, as regular enlisted men, with no promises for commission. The urgent need for officers in the line and aviation branches of the Marine Corps no longer exists...
...University at the meeting of the Intercollegiate Athletic Association, December 27. This meeting will be held at the Hotel Astor, New York, and all the Eastern colleges and universities will have delegates. The purpose of the meeting is to determine how far the reconstruction of college athletics will go, and to what extent the whole system will be built up. Plans will be discussed as to the development of athletics on a modified scale, with the purpose in view of giving as high-class football as there was before the war, and still maintain a less lavish standard. The travelling...
...majority of the men will go from here to Paris Island, South Carolina, and thence to Quantico, Virginia, where they will receive their commissions as line officers upon completion of their course of training. Those men who were selected for Marine Aviation service, however, will go first to the ground school at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and then to the flying chool at Miami, Florida, where they will complete their training and receive commissions...
...ground that they dig for themselves and lie in with no covering except their own blankets. They come in here simply caked with mud and look very miserable and cold. The Red Cross Canteen here furnishes them with hot bouillon, cocoa, etc., when they arrive and when they go on the train to be evacuated...
...along here that all the fighting is now going on in which the American troops are taking part. It was a difficult task that had been given them--to clear the Argonne Forest of Germans, but it has been done at a great cost. However, the fighting is now in the open and things ought to go on more rapidly...