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...excellent training and personnel of the old Harvard regiment was felt all through the American Expeditionary Force", said Major Carroll J. Swan '01, of the 101st Engineers, in an interview with a CRIMSON reporter. "I think that everyone associated with the R. O. T. C. should be justly proud of the result attained, and I hope that the work of the regiment will be continued. Military training of some sort should be a permanent feature of our College. It makes for better students, better men, and better citizens...
Lieutenant Richmond Young '16, of Boston, has died in France of wounds received in action on October 10. He attended the first Plattsburg Camp where he was commissioned a first lieutenant, and was immediately sent overseas with Company B, 304th Regiment, Seventy-sixth Division, but was later transferred to Company K of the Thirty-Eighth Infantry, Third Division...
...great drive against the Germans in the Argonne region on September 26, Colonel Shannon obtained permission to leave an important post in the Personnel Bureau and go to the front. During the terrific fighting trained officers were in demand, and he was given command of a certain infantry regiment in the absence of its colonel. For his efficient service he was recommended for promotion to the rank of colonel, and being placed in command of the 112th Regiment Infantry, 28th Division, led that regiment in the assault and capture of Chatel-Chehery on October 7. While organizing his command there...
...death of Lieutenant James Kennedy Moorhead '17 and Law School, while leading his men in the drive on the Metz Fortress on the Verdun front last October. Moorhead left the University in April, 1917, for Fort Niagara where he was commissioned second lieutenant and assigned to the 22nd Regiment of the Regular Army at Fort Hamilton, N. Y. From there he went to Philadelphia where he and his men guarded the interned German officers and sailors. Detailed to the 61st Infantry at Camp Green, North Carolina, he went overseas on April...
...University is now running on a purely academic basis. There are no students at the University now under military instruction. This is a condition which has not existed since January, 1916, when the University Regiment was established under Captain (now Colonel) Cordier...