Word: sectional
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Recent dispatches from France report the decoration with the croix de guerre of Private Richard Van Wyck Buel '18, of Section 642 of the U.S.A. Ambulance Corps. Buel received the cross for bravery under fire in an engagement on the Aisne during the last week of February. He was sent to the front-line trenches, it is said, to rescue men suffering from an unusually severe gas attack, and was wounded by a German shell while in performance of his duty. He was awarded the medal while in the base hospital on March...
...This morning at 10 o'clock one section went to lunch while the other section in which I was (eight of us) stayed to fly till 12. It had become cloudy and when I went up I had to climb through one stratum of clouds to where the target was being towed, at 1,200 metres. It was an extraordinarily fine sight. Above this cloud floor it was clear and bright. The clouds looked very solid like great snowdrifts, with crevices, through which one could see the ground far below and peaks and domes rising above the others. The machine...
...Hambleton '20, 1st Lt., Aviation Section, Signal Corps...
...Military Science 1 the Section meetings will be discontinued during the fortnight from April 1st to 13th inclusive. They will meet as heretofore on and after April 22nd...
Members of Philosophy B who are Section 2-a or 2-b of Military Science or Section 1-a-or 1-b of Military Science 2, may attend any other section week of March 25-30. They are direction to report to Mr. Dunton at Headquarters what section they attended, and give their names to instructor in charge of the section...