Word: sented
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...touchdown by the informals was the only score in a 35-minute scrimmage between the Freshman and the University squads yesterday. Coach Wallace sent his first team against the informals, who lacked several regulars because of the drill for those in the naval courses. Forward passes were tried by both teams in great number. J. G. Coolidge '20 broke up several of the Freshman passes and ran back kicks for long gains. Coach Rollins played in the informal backfield the greater part of the scrimmage in place of L. Crosscup '19, who injured his leg in the first few plays...
...began his training on an 18 metre Nieuport, single control. This was the last type of machine he had flown at Avord and it is the first type taken up at this school. After a few short flights to demonstrate his ability and to learn the machine, he was sent up for practice in spiraling. For this you ascend to 1,000 metres and from that altitude you spiral down to 600 metres where you stop the spiral and descend to the ground in normal and wide turns. He commenced his spirals normally, but, when at 600 metres...
...this regard, having served himself under Kitchener. He enlisted soon after the beginning of the war, and spent six months of the fall and winter of 1914-15 in training at Aldershot, England, in the Tenth Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders. After training for six months, the regiment was sent to France and went into action among the "first hundred thousand." While at the front his ability and courage won him promotion to a captaincy, the commission he now holds...
...gladly received at the first regular Plattsburg officers' training camps opened this spring. Others in great number, with recruits from the other colleges and from all walks of life, enlisted for the intensive period of summer training which was not permitted to lead to commissions directly, but which again sent a long list of unusually well prepared men to the second Plattsburgs. In the closing weeks of the summer, the Harvard organization, its ideals, its French instructors, and its equipment provided foundation for that great school of "The Iron Battalion" in which men from training camps throughout the country participated...
...Department has ordained that the Harvard men who are going to the third Officers Training Camp shall be sent to Yaphank, L. I., there to be trained with the National Army units from New York State...