Word: regiment
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President Lowell opened the new freshmen dormitories in September, 1914, and plans to create a University regiment received his endorsement. On Commencement Day, 1915, the first step of Lowell's plan to add to Harvard's greatness was completed when Widener Library was dedicated...
Died. Calvin P. Titus, 86, Congressional Medal of Honor winner during the 1900 Boxer Rebellion in China who, as an infantry bugler, scaled the 30-ft. Peking wall in a hail of bullets to lead his pinned-down regiment to the rescue of U.S. and European citizens; after a stroke; in San Fernando, Calif...
...provide some form of voluntary training, the Harvard Regiment was organized. The Regiment, which attracted nation-wide attention, gave its 1200 student members training in military tactics, taught them how to use rifles and expected them to attend one lecture a week in military science. In March, 1916, 52 students organized an aero corps to train Harvard men as aviators to fight with the United States Army in case...
...time after time, they in turn told their Commander in Chief that they were ready to return to Viet Nam-though most all too clearly were not. "I'm in good shape," insisted Major Boyd Parsons, 43, an adviser attached to a Vietnamese infantry regiment, who had lost one eye and part of the other, as the President pinned a Purple Heart on the left collar of his pajamas. "There's no problem at all. I'm ready to go back." The 1st Infantry Division's Pfc. Antonio Dell' Osso, 23, who had been torn...
Elsewhere, other elements of Operation Abilene fared better. As the operation concluded at week's end, units of the Big Red One, the Royal Australian Regiment and New Zealand Artillery Battalion counted a total of 59 enemy killed, 22 captured, and a 900-sq.-mi. area cleared of Viet Cong-at least for the time being. That left two major sweeps still in progress: Operation Nevada, a search-and-destroy mission by several U.S. Marine battalions in the Cape Batagan Peninsula, which has so far killed 42 Viet Cong, and Operation Fillmore, a sweep through Phu Yen province...