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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...size, while the evening is evanescent. Seven hundred men have acquired the habit of seeing how the great city looks before the subways to Boston are running, and the Cambridge police force, taking up the burden the stars have left off, resumes his diurnal beat. Seven hundred men have seen with Pippa the morning at seven; although the lark and the snail are missing from the wing and the thorn...
There will be many things to interest this veteran of world-changing battles. In all truth it may be that which we might suppose would interest him the most will not stir him. He has seen so very much of war, so very much of soldiers, courageous, hardy, strong, that the sight of one more regiment, however gallant and well-trained it may be, could well cause small influence on him. What thought can he have of a thousand men? He has been in command of millions...
...Institute, and at Dartmouth a company of 50 men have started the regular signal work course and in addition are drilling regularly. Captain Russell, who has general charge of the new corps, apparently the only one yet organized in the country, has had 31 months of actual fighting, having seen service both at Peking during the Boxer Rebellion and in the Philippines, being therefore especially fitted for the work of organizing a signal reserve corps in New England. Over 400 men have enlisted so far, all of whom had practical experience, with the exception of the college men entered...
...under the control of the American Red Cross, and is known as the American Red Cross, Unit. There are three corps, all composed of Buicks and Fiats, now in the field, and the two new Golelet Corps are nearing a satisfactory completion. Both of the old corps have seen service in nearly every sector in France. Section 7 was in Champagne during the offensive there, and was at Verdun all during the offensive. The section has received several citations, and 37 individual citations. The Harjes Section has been in Alsace and at Verdun. It has received the citation...
...starting at 1.30 instead of at 2 o'clock. The first regimental parade was held on Franklin Field before Provost Smith and Major Kelley on April 20, and the university band which has been formally incorporated in the Regiment as a military band was for the first time seen. Arrangements have been made to allow the Regiment to hold rifle practice at the Government range at Essington, below Philadelphia. The examinations for men wishing to qualify as cadet officers are held every week...