Word: commandeering
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...Naturally, I was more acquainted with the men in the higher commands of the 26th Division. Many were Harvard men. Brig. Gen. Sherman was one of them. He went across as a Colonel, was then promoted to the command of the Brigade Artillery of the 92nd Division, fought at Toul and Verdun, and, after the armistice was signed, was transferred to the 26th Division. He was one of three National Guard Colonel's to be promoted to the rank of Brigadier-General during the war. Then there is Col. Richard K. Hale '02, now Chief of Staff of the Yankee...
...experience, he may enter a United States Shipping Board School in navigation, to fit himself for an officer's license. In three years more, he can pass through all three grades as mate--third, second, and first, in order--and his next step in promotion is to the command of a ship...
...majority of the lads now entering the Merchant Marine realize that they can well afford to spend two or three years seeing the world, with the opportunity to stay and work up to the command of a ship, or to a position of responsibility in a commercial house in a few years more. It is this spirit of adventure that is pulling so many young men away from the humdrum things of life, and that will establish American trade in the far ports of the earth...
...offer his services to the government in case of any emergency, without the delay of long months of preparation, Its particular aim is to increase alertness, accuracy, and resourcefulness of thought, the art of working in co-operation with other men, and the learning how to obey and command. I hope that the undergraduates will give very careful consideration to the opportunity which is now extended to them by the generous facilities which the War Department offers at this time...
Major Kenneth Pepperrell Budd '02 of the 308th Infantry has been awarded the Distinguished Service Cross by General Pershing. Major Budd's citation reads as follows: "For extraordinary heroism near Ville Savoye, France, August 16. 1918. Although Major Budd's post of command was subject to continuous and concentrated gas attacks, and despite the fact that he was severely gassed during the bombardment, he refused to be evacuated, remaining for three days to superintend personally the relief of his battalion and the removal to the rear of the men who had been gassed...