Word: sections
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...morning until a time not later than ten in the morning. The daily program begins with a formation at seven o'clock, from which the men march to breakfast at the Union, and is followed by a drill period from 8 to 9.20, except on Saturdays, when section meetings are held during the hour beginning at 8.20. The company is organized with a system of demerits, tardiness counting as one demerit, absence as three, insubordinate conduct as five, and other unmeritorious conduct as much as the Commanding Officer sees fit. Nine demerits are allowed in a month...
Lieutenant M. W. Vedder, commandant of the Marine Section of the S. A. T. C. was graduated from the University of California with the class of '15. After completing an additional year in the Law School of the University of California, he was given an honorary appointment as a first lieutenant in the United States Marine Corps from the University of California, where military training is compulsory...
Thus the students in the Junior Company will be able to attend classes and recitations after 10 o'clock without uniform. The period from 8.20 to 9.20 o'clock will be devoted either to a lecture, section meeting, or drill. This military work will count as a half course for the bachelor degree by properly qualified students. The course is to run throughout the year...
...least tell you that immediately north of me the Boches have been running like hell for three weeks. About midnight on the 14th of last month, the Germans started this drive in our sector, and never have I heard such a barrage. Last summer, when the section to which I was attached worked in the Verdun sector, I thought that I had never heard a barrage as intense as the French barrage of the 20th of August, but this one seemed to be multiplied by a hundred, and as one American officer remarked from a stretcher...
With the growth of American participation in the greatest of all conflicts, has come ever increasing casualty lists. Every section of the country, every state is included. Each time the supreme sacrifice seems to have been made by someone nearer home. Friends have fallen at Chateau Thierry, at Soissons, along the Vesle, and even in the camps of this country. The University has lost many sons; not only graduates, but classmates, students whom we have lived and worked with, comrades whom we have contested and competed with, men whom we now mourn with mingled feelings of sorrow and admiration. They...