Word: major
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Saturday 1922 will enter its first representative competition in intercollegiate major sports. The Freshman Class deserves a victory...
...Major General Squire, Chief of the Signal Corps and Director of Aviation during the war, has approved of the intercollegiate flying contests which are to be held at Atlantic City this spring and summer. According to a recent despatch he said, "I strongly favor the plan. This proposition offers a new and chivalrous sport for the Colleges to compete in, and I ardently hope that the scheme will be a success. There are thousands of men in the colleges who have been fliers in the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps Air Service so there is an abundance of material...
Among the Harvard men who returned recently to this country on the transport "Mongolian," the most prominent was Brigadier General John H. Sherbourne '99, commander of the 51st Artillery Brigade. Major H. W. Minot '17, adjutant of the brigade and former halfback on his Freshman football team was another...
...same brigade were Captain Andrew Thompson '06, of Worcester, who received the Croix de Guerre, and Major Norman M. MacLeod '02, of Providence, R. I. The latter received the D. S. C. and Croix de Guerre with a palm for conspicuous service at Macheville, when an attack was directed against this town last September. Major MacLeod was liaison officer at the time with the 102nd regiment, and took command of the scattered elements of infantry which did not have sufficient officers, owing to losses. With these men, Major MacLeod, then captain, successfully resisted an enemy counter-attack...
...Major Charles F. Mains '96, medical officer of the 103rd Field Artillery was also among those on board. He was first attached to the 101st Ambulance Company, later being transferred to the Verdun front, where he was when the Verdun front, where armistice was signed...