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...support any advance in that direction. I believe that every boy should be given training during his nineteenth year. This compulsory service would not last more than one year, and therefore would not be long enough to have a militaristic influence over our youth. The splendid record of the 26th Division has shown that one year of well applied training is sufficient to make a good soldier out of the average man. The training would be entirely under the control of the government, and would normally come between the last year of preparatory school and the first year of college...
...Besides the moral growth that universal military service would bring about, much would be gained through the physical development of our young men. Out of every 1,000 men who were examined for the army, 271 were unfit for military service. In the 26th Division we had many cases of flat feet which made the men useless for hard military work. At the advice of one of my colonels who was an orthopedic specialist, these men were organized into a special training batalion. In eight weeks, 80 per cent of these supposedly unfit men were made physically sound and able...
Lieutenant Ralph Guy White, L. '16 died July 21, 1918, at Field Hospital No. 1, of wounds received on the Soissons Front. He entered the service April 13, 1917, and received his commission seven days later. Lieut, White sailed with the 26th Division in September, 1917, and went into action near Soissions in February, 1918. In March he was ordered away from the front, but returned again in July. He was Mortally wounded July 19 by machine gun fire...
Lieutenant Clark Richardsen Lincoln, Med. '99-'01, battalion supply officer, 102d M. G. Brig., 26th Div., A. E. F., died of wounds received in the second battle of the Marne, July 24, 1918. As a member of the Massachusetts National Guard, Lincoln became second lieutenant of Co. A, 102d M. G. Brig., in August, 1917. He sailed for St. Nazaire, France on September 23, of the same year. He took part in the battle of Seicheprey and the second battle of the Marne. In April, 1918, he was promoted to first lieutenant...
Lieutenant Charles Parker Reynolds '18 died in France of typhoid fever. Word was received Saturday night by his parents that his death occurred after the Armistice was signed. Lieutenant Reynolds went through all the fighting with the 26th Division and was expected home at the time news of his death was received...