Word: hill
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...expected that crocodile-green and gila-monster-pink will make their appearance in Flanders, side by side with serpent mottled and zebra striped. The armies may view with each other in sartorial battle for the most striking colors, and soldiers parade along Dead Man's Hill as civilians parade on Fifth Avenue. The familiar cloudblue, sand-brown, and leaf-green uniforms will be passe as are hoop skirts now. We may suppose an army clad in giraffe spots combatting victoriously at Potsdam, and taking time to change to ostrich-white and black before entering the capitol in triumph...
...October, are cited in army orders today. One of the men was from Yale, one from Princeton and four from the University. The alumni of the University named are A. G. Carey '14 of Cambridge, D. Sargent '13 of Wellesley, G. Baird '11 of New York, N. Y. Lovering Hill '10 who has commanded the section for two years is cited in the order for the fourth time...
...citations mention gallant work performed by the men named in picking up and saving wounded men around Monastir under the heaviest of shelling. Hill's work at Hartmanswella-Kopf and Verdun also is mentioned...
...Paris stating that John Edward Boit '12, a member of the American Ambulance Field Service, has been cited for distinguished service performed last September. Boit went to France in the spring of 1916 and has been in the second section of the American Ambulance Field Service, driving at Verdun, Hill 304, Dead Man Hill, and more recently in the Argonne forest. He was cited for carrying wounded men from the firing zone under heavy shelling from the German batteries...
...clock yesterday afternoon by invitation of Professor and Mrs. McAdie, the members of the Corporation and the Overseers lunched with them at their residence in Milton. After lunch a visit was made to the Blue Hill Observatory, of which Professor McAdie is director, and on the way back to Boston the party visited the Bussey Institution and the Arnold Arboretum. The latter occupies some 220 acres in West Roxbury...