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Captain Carroll Dunham '10, adjutant of the S. A. T. C. unit at the University, entered military from civil life in July, 1917. He received his A.B. degree at the University in 1910 and the degree of M.A. in 1911. In 1917 he was commissioned captain in the aircraft production department of the Air Service and was on duty in Washington until August...
According to the regulations of the training camp for heavy artillery, all candidates must be in the military service at the time they are accepted, but a special provision is being made for certain selected men now in civil life...
Speaking on the relation of the student body to the war Vice-President Marshall said: "My views are quite clear upon this subject. I was heartily in favor of Conscription, in order to enable the Government to select those persons who could best be spared from civil life and who could best discharge military duty. I still believe in the principle...
...last year, Memorial Day was swiftly on the road to becoming a holiday and no more--a day of freedom from routine without special meaning. For the younger generation's interest in the Civil War is historical rather than personal and our honor for the dead who gave up their lives in that struggle was so taken for granted that each year saw less and less deep feeling within us. We honored those heroes of '61, but we did it subconsciously and with little appreciation of the hell they had been through...
...Harvard dead who will always be remembered. This list of seventy names will grow steadily and more and more rapidly. Fifty years from now our sons will tell their sons that on May 30 the United States pays tribute to the men who fought for their country in the Civil War and for the world in the Great...