Word: got
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Perhaps a few words about myself will get me 'oriented,' and give me a bit of framework to build upon. I got my commission in the United States Marines without any trouble, thanks to yours and other letters, and a long lanky frame. Darrah Kelly was under-weight, and no amount of argument and pleading could make up for the deficiency. I felt extremely sorry, but was powerless to do anything. After a few months at Quantico, Va., we got off in the early part of September. As I stood a regular turn in the submarine watch...
...Once on land we hustled to a camp and got shore down. Then we began the work which a vanguard must always do in preparation for that which is to follow. Of course, some of the work didn't have much to do with the rifle and bullet, or the bayonet, but it was and is necessary; at present of vastly greater importance that the above. With the necessity of five men behind the lines for one at the front the adage about the acorn and the oak is reversed to a large extent as regards war. The gigantic preparation...
...playing the game. And we've been getting it for the past couple of months in a manner that makes one itch for the actual hunting grounds. Sir, I admire, sympathize with, and love the French, but it's the British to whom I give my respect. They've got the 'spirit of the bayonet'; they've changed their easy going temperament and, taught by bitter experience, answer the cry 'Kamerad' with a short sharp jab; they're fighting mad, playing the game for all it's worth. System? They've got everything down to a fine point; a great...
...have heard, I got in the way of a bit of shell last August and had a delightful time at Neuilly (the American Ambulance Hospital) for about a month. Then I applied for sick leave to England and spent a most interesting ten days across the Channel. It was my first visit to England, so I would have had a pretty splendid time anyway; but as an added attraction it was the open season for Gothas--the moonlight nights at the end of September...
...scope per fortnight can be found to show the war-time activities of the University, but the allotment of pictures in the current number is a trifle unusual. The same photographer who went to Princeton also got up early enough to snap one of the R. O. T. C. companies passing through the Stadium gate on a rainy morning. His enterprise again gave a picture that even the wet weather couldn't quite spoil. Among the "newsy" pictures are those of the victorious Freshman cross-country team and the new Sophomore class officers...