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...annual convention the American Legion will find much work cut out for it in defending and strengthening American citizenship. There is no lack of things to do. The American Expeditionary Force, when it put into khaki, in a great cause, literal millions to whom the American Republic was but a name, blocked out the vast work of patriotic fusion which the Legion now has to do. The Legion's function is to make the sentiment of American militant citizenship real, and real forever, in American lives. Evidently it does not shirk that task in the least. It will be greeted...
Beneath the red and Khaki shines...
Today is Cap and Gown Day! Once again, after two drab, monotonous years of khaki, the Senior class blossoms forth in impressive robes of funeral and scholarly hue. As of yore, the Yard will welcome those venerable togas smacking of mysterious classical antiquity as well as the geometric head gear suggestive of profound and learned erudition in the occult mysteries of oblate spheroids and tangent planes...
...their experience or expectation; even in this short time friendships, were formed which will never be forgotten; character has been moulded which cannot fall to have its effect on the later years of the men's lives. Now all this has been brought to a close, and although khaki uniforms may still be seen for a few months in the vicinity of the Yard, all but a few traces of the former organization have forever disappeared...
...flashlight circuit" of the Y. M. C. A. is only a small part of the work done by this organization. One of the dispatches from Europe recently tells of boys in khaki playing billiards in gas masks...