Word: joined
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...prominent athletes who served with the army either here or aboard previous to the armistice, will be quartered in special army barracks, and will be given the benefit of special coaching and a training table. The group of picked athletes who are already in training in France will here join forces with those from the United States to form the complete American team. After the final selection, following the competitive tests, the entire aggregation will be under the direction of Lieut. Richard L. Byrd, champion discuss thrower, who has been appointed captain of the A. E. F. track and field...
...first marshal of his class. He said that the class of 1918 was to hold a dinner on Monday evening, June 16, and was also planning to hold some sort of a reunion on Class Day. He said further that he would prefer to have the 1918 men join in their own activities rather than those of the Seniors. Accordingly it was decided that men of the class of 1918 will not share in any of the Senior activities. However, they may procure Class Day tickets on the regular graduate application blanks...
...Louis meeting in November, we hope to have the national organization completed. Local posts are being formed in every part of the United States under the leadership of the committeemen appointed at St. Louis. It is our hope that every man who served in the Great War will join one of the branches, and we expect that the larger colleges will form units of their...
...those who gave their lives in the war the country will always be indebted. To those who, like Mr. Norton, also brought Europe, and the United Stated closer together we are doubly grateful. It is characteristic of the man that, though too old to join a combatant unit in the American Army, he had been twice decorated for gallantry. These are tangible acknowledgements of his work, but the real tribute for what he has accomplished lies in the heart of those who have been privileged to serve under him, and in the gratitude of every wounded man tended because...
...nearly a year the only American uniforms known overseas were those of the Norton-Harjes Ambulance Service, and all that the French had to judge this country by was the work of the men in this unit. At that time, many undergraduates left the University in order to join Norton's corps and have since played an important part in the entire history of the ambulance service...