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...Naturally, I was more acquainted with the men in the higher commands of the 26th Division. Many were Harvard men. Brig. Gen. Sherman was one of them. He went across as a Colonel, was then promoted to the command of the Brigade Artillery of the 92nd Division, fought at Toul and Verdun, and, after the armistice was signed, was transferred to the 26th Division. He was one of three National Guard Colonel's to be promoted to the rank of Brigadier-General during the war. Then there is Col. Richard K. Hale '02, now Chief of Staff of the Yankee...
...inclement weather of yesterday afternoon the freshmen oarsmen did not go out on the river although three University shells went upstream...
Major James Alfred Roosevelt '07 died aboard the transport Great Northern, which was due in New York yesterday, while on his way back from France to arrange for the reception of the 77th Division. He went over as a captain and became commander of the 302nd Ammunition Train. Major Roosevelt was a second cousin to the late Colonel Theodore Roosevelt and a nephew of President Lowell...
Shay has had two years' experience with major and minor league clubs. He went from Goddard Seminary in 1916 to join the Chicago "Cubs" as short-stop and worked with them throughout the season. The following winter he went to the St. Joseph club of the Western League. In that year, his batting average was .274, the highest of any short-stop in the league. He acted as captain of the team during part of the season. Shay joined the navy in December, 1917, and played with the Charlestown Navy Yard team during the following spring...
...University fencing team went down to defeat last night at the hands of Columbia by a score of 7 to 2. The victories of Captain E. R. Gay '19 over Foster of Columbia and R. H. Snow '20 over Brackett were the only two matches won by the University...