Word: recent
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...French engineer units, roads put back in shape, bridges being rebuilt, etc., so that they are less depressing in appearance than a town is when first taken back--after German habitation and allied bombardment. The country roads, too, are now in good shape, but everywhere there are signs of recent battle...
Word has been received of the recent death of Nathan Cook Brackett '21, which occurred while he was working at the Atlantic Ship Yards in Portsmouth, N. H. He was killed by shock when he touched a live wire while at work on an lion girder...
...After recovering from very serious wounds received in action, he was discharged from the British army as a veteran unfit for further service, and returned to America. When we declared war, however, and the draft was put in to effect, he was called for examination. In spite of his recent marriage and in spite of the advice of all his friends who knew that he was unfit for service, he waived exemption, squeezed by his physical examination, and entered the National Army. When his division went into action, Gallishaw's bravery and ability won him a first lieutenant's commission...
...CRIMSON has permission to publish the following two letters received by Professor Copeland, the first from Captain W. J. Bingham '16, U. S. A. A. S., first marshal of his class, and captain of track '16; the second from a recent graduate of the College, now Infantry Lieutenant serving in France, whose name is withheld...
...should like to express my strong disapproval of the implication in one or two recent editorials that the work of the Faculty instructors in the R. O. T. C. has not been of great value to the organization. Although I realize that in writing this to you I am laying myself open to the charge of having a personal grievance, I feel that my close association with the work of the Corps during the past two years makes it incumbent upon me to voice my dissent. No one who has followed the work as closely as I have can fail...