Word: joined
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Walton Kimball Smith, Law '15, a flight cadet in the Royal Air Force, was killed July--6, 1918, in an aeroplane accident at New Romney, England. After having failed to enter the United States Air Service because of Slight physical defects, he went to France to join the Field Service. On his arrival, however, finding, that he could join the British aviation service, he enlisted in that organization in December, 1918. He trained at No. 1 Observer's School of Aerial Gunnery. He would have received his commission the week following his death...
...your agreement; that no nation can submit to the judgment of other nations; and that we must be careful at the beginning not to attempt too much... But I do not believe that when Washington warned us against entangling alliances he meant for one moment that we should not join with other civilized nations of the world, if a method could be found to diminish war and encourage peace. The limit of voluntary arbitration has, I think, been reached. I think the next step... is to put force behind international peace." What a strange reverse in opinion has come...
...groups led by Professors Emerton, Ferguson, Morize, and Wiener, are being rapidly filled. The books will, however, be open today at the CRIMSON Building, Phillips Brooks House, and the check room in Widener for further signatures. The membership of the groups will be limited and men who wish to join and have not already registered must do so at once...
...spirit of patriotism and Americanism. It is difficult to expect a man who cannot write his own name, whose whole life is bound up in six days of manual labor and a pay roll at the end, to appreciate the advantages of our particular constitution. Why should he not join the I. W. W., the Bolsheviki or any other organization that promises him more personal advantages, more money, more power. The agents of destruction are amply provided with arguments for his consumption...
...staff work and longed to be with the army in the field, like the good soldier that he was, he did not complain and was considered one of the most capable officers on the staff. After a year he obtained his transfer and rode all night on horseback to join his regiment at the front, going into action that very morning. He was killed on the second day after being relieved from staff duty, while engaged on an especially hazardous mission, which he accomplished...