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...second and last acts are considerably better. The camp at Yaphank, Long Island is amusingly portrayed and the usual soldier cracks go off with unexpected success. The scenes "over there" are short, and after being captured in a shell hole, our hero ends up in a German dugout. He is just about to be executed when the Armistice is announced...
...extraordinary heroism on the field of battle. After leaving College to enter the service, he was elected a Business Editor of the CRIMSON and was first sergeant of Co. A of the R.O.T.C. in the fall of 1917. In January, 1918 he entered the Third Officers' Training Camp at Yaphank and was sent overseas for further training before receiving his commission as 2nd lieutenant. Shortly before his death, he was promoted to 1st lieutenant. Lt. Angier's citation follows...
Forty-three former members of the University have been graduated from the Third Officers' Training Camp at Camp Upton, Yaphank, L. I., and are now rated as eligible for commissions as second lieutenants in the Army. Only six of the 49 men who entered the training schools as members of the University's quota failed to qualify for commissions at the end of the course. The future officers will be called for active duty in their commissioned grades as soon as needed by the Government...
...thing is unusual, and faintly hopeful, about the latest Advocate: the editorials are the best part of it. They are brief, timely, pointed, sane, and well expressed. There is a letter from the former president, now at Yaphank, which is frank and entertaining. There is a short poem by Mr. Cowley, whose work always shows intelligence and distinction. There is some incontrovertible wisdom on the war by Mr. C. MacVeagh. And that is about all that one can find to praise...
...first Harvard Regiment drill was a big game and the Sunday battles became social picnics, but now with a great war on our hands we must all take things more seriously. Men who are not passing should in the future not be allowed to represent the University at Yaphank and similar camps. By some such move alone can this Corps become a business-like, war-time regiment...