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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Seventy-two Freshmen have up to this time left College for active military service and this number is rapidly increasing as more and more men are enlisting in the various branches of the service, principally in the Naval Reserve in which 44 members of 1920 are enlisted. A large part of these men are already assigned to patrol boats and several of these are almost entirely manned by Freshmen. Most of these men are enlisted in the district extending from Chatham, Mass., to Long Island, having Newport, R. I., as a base, and only a small proportion...
Eleven members of the class have obtained leave of absence in order to join the ambulance service in France. The greater part of this number are enrolled in the American Ambulance Field Service, but some have joined the Norton-Harjes Ambulance. Seven men are enlisted in the aviation service, some in the Aviation Section of the Reserve Officers' Signal Corps, and some in the training school at Squantum. Several others are on the reserve list of this school and expect to get called at any time. Four men from 1920 are in the United States Secret Service...
...Chinese will be represented and will render some Chinese pieces, several poems will be given in Scotch, a Greek drama, "An Ancient Thanksgiving," will also be given, several other representative acts will be given and the program will be closed by singing "My Country 'Tis of Thee." The greater part of the program will be rendered by members of the University...
Pennsylvania, aside from the Regiment, is taking active part in several other divisions of military service. A signal corps divided into three sections, wireless, wig-wagging and semaphore code word, has been formed; 60 students are enrolled for special training in aviation; a base hospital unit has been formed by Dr. Edward Martin; 41 gymnasium leaders have volunteered for special training and will become instructors for the conditioning of the raw recruits; about 150 men have joined the Naval Reserve; a machine gun corps is being trained, and enlistments have begun for farm and industrial service. The profits...
...units. Not enough men have enlisted so far for the ambulance driving, however, and members of the University are given an excellent chance to volunteer for this work and sail at once for France. The first 30 men will sail within a week, but these are only a part of the 80 needed, if the sections are to take the field at an early date...