Word: furloughs
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Captain Hamilton Fish, Jr., '06, 369th Regiment, has been awarded the Croix de Guerre. General Petain made the award with the following citation:--"Captain Hamilton Fish, Jr., commander of Co. K, 369th Infantry Regiment, being on furlough; came back to spend his furlough with the regiment, knowing it had been engaged. Has rendered precious services--exposed incessantly to danger--before, during, and after the taking of a village, and in establishing contact between the regiment and his battalion...
...have completed three years of the prescribed course of a college of high grade and left college to enter the military or naval service of the United States or one of the countries allied with the United States, upon producing certificates of their college work and proper evidence of furlough or discharge from the service." There will be the same number of lectures as in the regular session, the courses will be conducted by the regular teaching staff and substantially the same opportunities will be offered. The session is arranged primarily to meet the needs of students discharged from...
That there at present exists a decided collegiate reaction against all things military hardly touches on the case. General Danford himself admits it but advocates "a furlough for the rest of the year" and "a real start in the fall...
...prescribed course of a college of high grade and who left college to enter the military service of the United States or one of the countries allied to the United States, will be admitted, provided only that they can furnish certificates of their college work and proper evidence of furlough or discharge from the service...
...colleges and universities that started the movement for the union were New England institutions and fully a score of our New England institutions are now identified with it. First, there is a home for college men passing through Paris or on furlough there; second, a headquarters for the bureaus of the individual colleges, many of which have representatives on the ground; third, it is a clearing house for information as to casualties, etc. On the first night that the Union opened in October the representatives of 30 colleges took rooms there. In the first three weeks men had registered from...