Word: insignia
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...buttons will be black with Arabic numerals in orange. The delay in manufacture has been due to the inability to procure the back of each button. Every regular course Senior and every man who is classed by the College Office as a Senior is eligible to wear this insignia. The buttons will cost 25 cents...
...gendarmes. Some streets and sections are completely laid waste, others alongside are untouched. As for German prisoners I saw about 50 or 75 in all. It was great sport to see the French soldiers surrounding a German prisoner or two, drawing their knives and slashing off buttons, shoulder straps, insignia--anything for a souvenir. We could look in vain for a hungry or weak looking German to best out stories of hardships. But they looked healthy, and, above all, greatly pleased that they were headed away from the lines and were about to escape from...
...have been made for the instruction of all men in the Yale Battalion in gunner's practice. Every man taking advantage of this instruction will qualify as an expert gunner, thereby winning for his battery 75 points on the Federal rating, and permitting him to wear the gunner's insignia on the sleeve of his coat. The subjects to be taught are: Direct laying with peep and panoramic sight; indirect laying with the panoramic sight; laying for range with quadrant; fuse setting with hand and bracket fuse-setters; assembling and disassembling breech-block and study of material...
...officers and Non-Commissioned officers will have their full insignia of rank for the march tomorrow. These consist of shoulder straps, leather leggins and hat tassels for the officers and chevrons for the non-commissioned officers. chevrons for the non-commissioned officers may be procured from the Harding Uniform Company...
...officers and Non-Commissioned officers will have their full insignia of rank for the march on Sunday...