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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...regiment remained in training for six months and were finally sent to the front in the spring of 1915 as members of the first detachment of England's volunteer army. Captain Beith's ability and courage soon won him a commission and he rose rapidly to the rank of captain. He has recently been granted a furlough by the British War Office to lecture in this country on England's part in the war and has already spoken at several universities and colleges, including Yale and Princeton, and at several preparatory schools...
...over the age limit for military service. Then came six months of arduous training at Aldershot with the other members of the motley collection known as Kitchener's mob, or "K(1)". In April, 1914, he was sent to France, where his distinguished conduct soon raised him to the rank of captain. His regiment suffered heavily in the famous "Battle of the Slag Heaps" in the Loos offensive of a year ago. For some mysterious reason, as he characteristically puts it, he was recommended for the Military Cross, and after being subsequently transferred to a machine gun company...
...first time in years that a foreigner has received this scholastic honor from France. It is a recognition that when the era of treaty revision begins after the war foreign countries will look toward this work as an authoritative source of information on American treaty law. It will take rank in foreign international law circles with a celebrated one written some years ago by a Rumanian on the Danube River Commission. The Harvard Law Review says of Mr. Bate's thesis: "Little that has been written regarding the borderland between international and constitutional law can compare with this pamphlet...
Captain Beith, or Ian Hay as the literary world knows him, was sent to the front with the "first hundred thousand." His bravery won him many promotions, and he finally received the rank of captain. He is now on a furlough and has been sent to this country by the British government to explain England's position...
...points with 15 touchdowns, 22 goals from touchdown and four goals from the field. Strupper, of Georgia Tech., who stands third in scoring honors, has crossed the goal line one more time than Oliphant, but he has only three goals form touchdown to his credit. The forth man in rank of individual high scoring is Fitzpatrick, of Boston College, and Gerrish, of Dartmouth stands fifth...