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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...critics to be the most powerful man in the University line, and is a possible choice for an All-American tackle. M. Wiggin '18, substitute centre, though light for his position, is a scrappy fighter. M. Taylor '18 has been a substitute tackle for two years and won his letter in 1915. The only regular from the class of 1919 is E. L. Casey, who starred as halfback both on offence and defence...
...Make a big fire in the fireplace for me," wrote Richard Hall, an American boy in the French Ambulance service, in a letter to his mother in Michigan, Richard, whose father was Professor Arthur Graham Bell, of the University of Michigan, and who was himself a student at Dartmouth, had gone to France to take his part in this service because, as he quaintly and also nobly put it, he "wanted the reassurance of doing his share." It was the 11th of November, and the boy was already thinking about Christmas, although he said that he really did not dare...
...been showing in the last two years to the cause of France--to the cause of civilization. They had built the fire for Richard; but they did a good deal more. The mother became a volunteer nurse in the hospital at Neuilly. Before she came she had written a letter to Abbe Klein, the chaplain of the hospital at Neuilly, in which she said: "As I write, the clock strikes two, perhaps the very hour when life forsook our child. I am often awake in these early hours and my heart goes to you all in France." Then she gave...
...letter from Marshall Batholomew 1907S reads as follows...
...Yale News published in Wednesday's issue a letter, received from a graduate who has been working with the American Y. M. C. A. in the prison camps of the warring countries of Europe. This work has received little publicity in the country on account of the necessity of doing the work as quietly as possible in the early months of the war when the chief problem was to obtain permission of the governments to perform this service. It was only careful diplomatic work and promises to do in one country just what was being done in the enemy...