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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...aviators in the Signal Corps. All applicants must pass both a physical and mental examination, a year or more in college being sufficient to pass the latter requirement. Those who are received for training at one of the Government schools, of which several have already been established, are ranked as sergeants and if they are accepted as regular commissioned officers after their periods of training they receive the rank of first lieutenant. It takes the average man about three months of intensive instruction to learn how to fly and another three months to master the military side of the work...
...feature of the game tonight will be the comparison of two unusually strong defensive trios. At goal, J. I. Wylde '17 and Ford both rank high in hockey circles. Captain J. E. P. Morgan '17 is probably the best defence player in intercollegiate hockey today, and T. C. Thacher '18 is another very fast back. Comey and Scully, the Princeton primary defence men, proved their ability against the University two weeks...
Following his enrolment immediately after the outbreak of the war, Captain Beith served with such ability and courage in the first detachment of England's volunteer army during the spring of 1915 that he was given a commission and soon attained his present rank of captain. In "The First Hundred Thousand," Captain Beith relates some of the most interesting of his personal experiences both in the training camp at Aldershot, when he was a member of the Sutherland Highlanders and at the front during the opening months of the war. His book is unique among the war publications in having...
...cast--Miss Grace George has finely appreciated the role of Barbara, and does more than justice to the part. From enthusiasm to discouragement, she is always the artist, and the noticeable suppression of ranting and rank melodrama is quite evident. Barbara is a dignified character and Miss George makes her fascinatingly so. Mr. Ernest Lawford as Adolphus Cusins is very successful, and his interpretation of the Greek professor could not well be improved upon by the present generation of actors. Two members of the cast as originally played in New York were missing, Mr. Louis Calvert, whose voice so suggested...
...worked the ball down to its opponents' five-yard line with a sure chance of a touchdown, when one of the players held in the line. The ball went back fifteen yards and the chance to score was gone. Did this funny business pay whereby one member's rank foolishness spoiled the chance of a much-desired victory...