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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...names of those members of the S. A. T. C. who have left for Officers' Training-Camps after being recommended by the military headquarters follows: The infantry men have reported to Camp Lee, Virginia, those entering the machine gun school to Fort Hancock, and the coast artillery division to Fortress Munroe. The list is complete to date: infantry, C. C. Adams, Jr., '21, C. P. Anderson '21, H. R. Atkinson '21, A. L. Benjamin '20, H. Berlack '20, E. L. Bigelow '21, L. S. Bing, Jr., "19, H. D. Costigan '20, J. Cowles '21, H. B. Coxe '20, P. Crystal...
Entries in the machine gun school: P. Birdsall '21, F. J. Chouteau, P. R. Chandler '21, E. I. Damon '21, G. G. Monks '21, H. Huttig...
...Nanon. He resembled a winter-garden chorus man about the face and timid sweet gestures--but he wore two blesse stripes, had a yellow-and-green four-ragere, several croix-de-guerres, innumerable service stripes, and embroidered on his arm the insignia that denoted he belonged to a machine gun squad. And he seemed girlish--ye gods. Also the Chasseur Captain next to me more only five wound stripes--and he looked young and happy--anticipating the next drive, I suppose. I am humble...
...yards away. Then followed a week--or 6 days to be exact--of holding the Boche on the other side of our line, and of driving out small parties which broke through, of sitting tight under his artillery fire, of dodging his rifle and machine gun bullets of smelling his gas and then scrambling into nose-bags, of eating one meal a day on feast days, and none at all on fast days, of staying aware day and night except for an, occasional forty winks stolen when things were more or less calm--in fact six days of pleasant contact...
...unit, Major Williams will be in charge of applications from many men other than those attending the University. The S. A. T. C. Headquarters has received instructions to hold up applications for the infantry, but to proceed as usual with those for the artillery and machine gun officers' school located at Camp Zachary Taylor, Ky., and Camp Lee, Va., respectively. Such application may be made on blanks which are on hand at Apthorp House, by men between the ages...