Word: yesterdays
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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According to a cablegram received by relatives yesterday, Lieutenant William Hague '04, of Grass Valley, Cal., has died of pneumonia while serving as a member of the American Expeditionary Force in France. Lieutenant Hague embarked for the front only six weeks ago with the 116th Regiment of Engineers. Before entering military service he was an engineer of the North Star Mines in his native state...
...Only yesterday the details of Captain Guynemer's funeral were announced. This most brilliant of French aviators was finally brought down behind German lines, but his life and record had been so glorious that even Germans had to honor him in death. They invited his companions in service to attend his burial and they gave them a safe-conduct across their lines. On that day a group of French planes flying close to the ground went over German lines and landed at a small village, the whole populace of which was showing its respect for the French hero. After...
...drill for Military Science 2 yesterday afternoon consisted of close-order work, practice in the giving of commands, and special instruction in the grenade and the automatic rifle. The first two platoons used the baseball cage, and had a short session of grenade-throwing under the direction of Captain F. Parkman, who explained the method of throwing the bombs. Lieutenant R. S. Lovering demonstrated the use of the French automatic rifle to the third and fourth platoons, whose work was somewhat hampered by the lack of space in the Municipal Drill Hall...
...winter track season opened yesterday afternoon when about 25 candidates reported for the first practice on Soldiers Field. Only light work was given the men, and they were dismissed after a short preliminary practice...
Captain R. G. Fuller, Regimental Adjutant, went to Washington yesterday to take up a position in the Intercollegiate Intelligence Bureau. This bureau supplies all departments of the Government with college men who are especially fitted for certain branches of Government work. After the war it will also provide occupations for men leaving the Army. His successor as adjutant has not been named...