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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Members of the S. A. T. C., the Naval Unit and the Marine Section will have one more opportunity of seeing the two plays offered by Workshop 47 tomorrow night in the Hasty Pudding Club Theatre, Holyoke street...
...regular S. A. T. C., except that the Junior Company wears the Harvard "Veritas" shield on the collar of the blouse. The work of the company is progressing rapidly, and the men are taking up bayonet-fighting with great interest and much enthusiasm. Through the courtesy of the Marine Section, the company has been able to borrow four U. S. army rifles, model 1917, and parry sticks for bayonet work are now on hand. As soon as a sufficient quantity of the Russian rifles arrive, the regular S. A. T. C. will use them exclusively, thereby allowing the Junior Company...
First Lieutenant Alfred A. DeGroot, commander of the second battalion, has been in active service in France for about one year with the 28th Infantry, First Division. This unit fought in the San Mihiel section, and later in the province of Loraine...
Enthusiastic reports are being received from the universities of this section. Large amounts are being piled up at Yale, Princeton, and Cornell. Yale's quota has been placed at $75,000, and the average subscription there is well over $30--which means that the military units are giving a month's pay in the great majority of cases. In the University, the marine unit is leading in the average amount of each subscription; they are giving $7 per man; the S. A. T. C. is averaging $4 and the Naval Unit is trailing with one dolar a piece. Unless these...
...must. But now it is a lonesome sort of place. Letters make it livable--and mails are laggards. When I wrote last the examinations of auto-school loomed cruelly ahead--but they were over in a breath, a sweltering breath to be sure, but passable. Arriving back at the Section near the Aisne and overlooking the now retaken S---, I had two days of airy breathing, then like a sudden gale came the drive and our retreat. Clothes didn't come off anywaysoever for a full three weeks. The work was never so jumbled before, the throbbing tide of days...