Word: platoon
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...graduate students at Cambridge have organized an M.A.'s platoon, and have been drilling and taking part in bridge guarding...
Andre Cheronnet Champollion '02 has enlisted in the French army, and at last accounts was serving in a platoon of candidates for promotion. His address is care of Morgan, Harges & Co., 31 Boulevard Hausmann, Paris. Phillips S. Reed '05 served in the hospitals of Paris and also had charge of the accounting and disbursement of the funds subscribed for the American Ambulance Corps, which maintained one hospital at Paris and another at Neuilly...
This movement to form a machine gun company has had remarkable success. At the first meeting over 60 men reported, many of whom have signified their intention of joining. The War Department originally intended to have the companies the same size as a platoon--25 men--but has since decided to make them separate and of the strength of infantry companies. This order will probably go into effect shortly. The Governor of Massachusetts and other state officials have taken considerable interest in the project and special privileges have been granted...
...stores and residences of Cambridge along the line of march will be appropriately decorated and illuminated. Calcium lights and transparencies with class numerals will be displayed. At Harvard Bridge a platoon of the Boston mounted police will meet the parade and conduct it through the city...
...Regiment, the New York National Guard, in which Robert Shaw served as a private. "As it swung out from Union Square into Broadway it was greeted with a roar which lasted all the way to the Battery, where it embarked, and Robert Shaw, the flank man of his platoon, was seized and kissed by man after man as they marched down Broadway." He was young, graceful, and handsome; every one liked him, every one trusted him implicitly. He was neither sentimental nor ostentatious, and did his full share of the new and severe work...