Word: patrolled
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...home who insist upon regarding war as a glorious sport at which our athletes are in nature bound to win. Parade after parade, motion pictures, books, and pamphlets confirm it. Our newspapers describe in four-inch headlines of alternated red and black how five "Yanks" have captured a German patrol of twenty, while on page five, under a flaring advertisement of some chewing gum company, we find the official British and French communications of attacks in which thousands have been engaged. In a way it is ludicrous, but such a sad commentary on our own crudity, that it loses most...
...though they may be in the service, are not doing their utmost toward winning the war. First the word slacker meant the man who dodged the enlistment office and the draft; then it was applied to those who secured soft berths in the service, such as patrol-boat jobs or office work, when they were well fitted for active service in the line; and now those who have had college training and are skilled enough to be officers, but who have seen fit to shirk the heavy responsibilities of the officers' post in order to join...
...hero of Captain Bjornstadt's novel, which was so eagerly devoured by the literature lovers of last year's Reserve Officers' Training Corps, has kept many of our military students in constant trepidation. Sergeant Hill, when last encountered, was still leading Quinn and Peterson on a desperate patrol toward the lines of the hostile Blues. With the skill of a Peo, Bjornstadt brought his hero into action and with bullets whizzing about him left this second Roland to his fate. What happened to Sergeant Hill? Even Captain Hamlin, Chief of Sections, was unable to answer this mystifying query...
...backfield, W. F. Robinson '18, quarter, is at Plattsburgh. E. L. Casey, '19, left halfback, is on a patrol boat in the United States Naval Reserve. T. C. Thacher, Jr., '18, right halfback, is at Plattsburgh. R. Horween '18, fullback, is doing patrol work with the U. S. Naval Reserves...
...Junior class at Yale has lost the greatest number of men on account of enlistments in government service. To date the total is 201 members of the class have left college. The unit which attracted the most attention was Unit No. 1 of the Aero Coast Patrol, which has been under intensive training at Palm Beach, Florida. It was the first unit to leave college. Of the officers' training camps, Plattsburg drew the largest number, while only three of the camps are not included in the list. Representatives of the class are enrolled in 36 different units...