Word: rode
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Although he disliked staff work and longed to be with the army in the field, like the good soldier that he was, he did not complain and was considered one of the most capable officers on the staff. After a year he obtained his transfer and rode all night on horseback to join his regiment at the front, going into action that very morning. He was killed on the second day after being relieved from staff duty, while engaged on an especially hazardous mission, which he accomplished...
...Coolidge, Jr., '17 and G. B. Blaine '17, official delegates from the College to testify before the Senate Committee on Military Affairs, arrived here tonight and went immediately to the Harvard Club. Guy Murchie '95, a member of the executive committee of the National Security League, rode with the delegates to New York and tendered them a cordial invitation to attend the Congress of Constructive Patriotism to be held here tomorrow. Friday and Saturday. This congress is to endorse a resolution in favor of universal military service. Mr. Murchie expressed strong approval of the amendment to the Chamberlain Bill, based...