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When First Sergt. Morris Isacowitz announced at retreat one night that "No buck private now walks the paths of Leverett House" and informed the bucks that "you are all first-class privates as of June 15, by grace of the War Department," many hurried to their rooms to write the tidings to wives, girl friends, mothers, brothers and old barracks mates. As the statisticians might say, a coefficient of chest exuansion was observed...
Members of the cadre headed by Sergt. Isacowitz weren't there to take the bow they deserved. However, all the soldier students have expressed their heartfelt gratitude for the speed with which the cadre men prepared payroll lists. One payday was June 12 and another payroll has already been signed...
...placed them on another trail. The Indians discovered and resolved to catch him in his own trap. So they collected their warriors to the number of 85 or 90 and surrounded the spot; they then by means of a cord exploded the shell. Down goes Capt. Rains with a Sergt. Corpl. and sixteen men. On coming to the place he found an old "Koon" (sic) dead. Whilst he was kicking or turning the Koon over with his foot the Indians rose up and fired. The men behaved very handsomely, at once formed and extended. The chief of the party...
PATRICK JOSEPH XAVIER McGovERN (1st Sergt. A. E. F.) Billings, Mont...
...Last year Capt. Castro of Chile was first of all flyers to cross the Andes. -Not, however, Sergt. A. G. Elliott, who started from England with Pilot Gobham but died when a Bedouin rifleman, strolling on the bank of the Euphrates River, took a potshot "for sport" at the strange thing passing overhead. Not Sergeant Ward, either, who volunteered for Elliott's place and flew with Cobham from Arabia to Australia. It was one Captel, a mechanic who substituted for Ward in Australia for the flight home...