Word: soldiers
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...observation of general conditions overseas, except from the very limited viewpoint of the single village in which the enlisted student would probably be stationed for guard-duty. In addition to this, such scant faith is apparently placed by the High Command in the loyalty and integrity of the American soldier, that he is denied the right to hold the slightest communication with the conquered inhabitants of the area of occupation in Germany...
June 3 has been set as the date on which the soldier-athletes now in this country will sail for France to strengthen the team which will represent the United States in the interallied games to be held at Joinville-le-Pont, near Paris, from June 22 to July 6. Col. Joseph H. Thompson, who was sent here by General Pershing to take abroad the team selected by the Amateur Athletic Union, has decided upon this early date of departure in order that the contingent may reach France as soon as possible to complete the preliminary trials at Joinville...
...feature of the meet will be a ten-team relay race from Chateau-Thierry to Paris. Each team will be composed of twenty-five men who will run three miles apiece. The harriers will carry a message to President Wilson by a soldier who took part in the battle of Chateau-Thierry. Should this event prove successful, the marathon race will be held annually...
...field in the Yale meet. The schedule has been so arranged that the baseball game should be finished by the time the track meet begins, thus affording a double entertainment to spectators. The added feature of a band and parade before the game should draw anyone to Soldier's Field who otherwise might have hesitated. There is no excuse, except sickness, for undergraduates not being there. This year must set a precedent to those following. If we do nothing in the way of welding the College into a sense of unity, the men who come here in later years will...
...seems to me that of the first actions of the St. Louis convention are particularly significant. The delegates voted down the 'Grab Bill' to give every discharged soldier six months additional pay. This bill had been proposed in Congress as a political measure in order to win votes from the many discharged soldiers for its backers. It was entirely unnecessary, as the $60 bonus law gave all the aid that was needed to get a discharged soldier back on the job. By repudiating this bill, the Legion showed that it intended to keep to its newly adopted tenet of steering...