Word: went
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Third Naval District, and Lieutenant Murphy was placed in charge. The university, with the consent of the rowing committee, handed over to the Government the University Boathouse to be used as a training school. This made a division in our ranks. The enlisted men, some 30 odd, went down to the boathouse and gave up their college work. About 150 others who wanted to finish their college course and also to receive naval instruction, retained their membership in the Yale Naval Training Unit...
...hundred and seven Brown men have left college to enter the military service or agriculture. Of these, 27 went to Plattsburg, 38 are in the Naval Reserve, 25 in the artillery, and 100 men on farms...
...dispatch has been received from Paris stating that John Edward Boit '12, a member of the American Ambulance Field Service, has been cited for distinguished service performed last September. Boit went to France in the spring of 1916 and has been in the second section of the American Ambulance Field Service, driving at Verdun, Hill 304, Dead Man Hill, and more recently in the Argonne forest. He was cited for carrying wounded men from the firing zone under heavy shelling from the German batteries...
...been very unstable, and that fact had been manifesting itself in a rising price of gold in terms of greenbacks in "futures" in the gold exchange in New York. Congress, therefore, by law closed the gold exchange, and forbade "futures" in gold and foreign exchange. Buying and selling went on--in small, demoralized markets. Gold was worth 198 in green-backs on the day the law passed. The next day it went to 208; the next day to 230, and by the end of the month 250. Prices fluctuated wildly. On July 2, without debate, the Congress repealed...
...four companies of the provisional battalion went through their first review in the Stadium yesterday afternoon. The entire ceremony, including the sound off by the band, was gone through and the company lines in passing in review were extraordinarily straight considering that yesterday was only the ninth day since the start of intensive training and therefore only the ninth day that the provisional battalion has been organized. F. B. Lund '18 acted as major of the battalion...