Word: rainbow
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...famous Apache Indian Scouts. Soon after his return from Mexico Colonel Shannon was detailed as Professor of Military Science and Tactics at the University and was on duty here in the spring and summer of 1917. In August of that year he was assigned as major to the 42d ("Rainbow") Division at Camp Milis, N. Y.; in October he went overseas with it. Shortly after his arrival in France he was selected by General Pershing to organize and conduct the Personnel Bureau of the American Expeditionary Forces. In accepting this important position, he sacrificed his great desire to serve with...
...cards and blue cards, buff cards and green cards--in fact cards of every color of the rainbow--will be seen darting across the Yard today in the hands of graduates and undergraduates who are struggling with that great problem of the first of a year, the selection of a full set of new courses. Each man will rush from professor to faculty adviser, and from faculty adviser to Miss Monk in a wild effort to determine how many of the one-third and two-third courses that seem in vogue at present are necessary to satisfy that exacting band...
There are two rambling historical chapters of Harvard life which ought to be of particular interest to the graduates. "The Waterfall with a Rainbow Therein" by J. B. Wheelwright '20 is a summary of the development of Harvard by ages, with the impressions of a Sophomore in the present Cyclonic Age. Mr. Wheelwright is naturally more interesting for his impressions of the Harvard of today...
...following letter was received recently by Colonel Azan from Major James A. Shannon, former commandant of the R. O. T. C., who is now with the 42nd or "Rainbow" Division in France. Somewhere in France...
Captain James A. Shannon has been made a major in his own regiment, the 11th Cavalry, but has been assigned to the 42nd, or "Rainbow," Division, at Camp Mills, Mineola, L. I. He is second in command of the divisional ammunition, sanitary, supply, and headquarters trains, and is in charge of the military police companies. There are three vacancies in those companies, which are later to see line service, and there is an opportunity for members of the R. O. T. C. to fill them. The Rainbow Division, which is composed of former national guard troops from 24 states, will...