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...entire personnel of the Brown University ambulance unit, which entered the Italian sector on Sept. 16, 1918, has been decorated with the croce al merito di guerra, the croix de guerre of Italy. There are 32 men in the unit, of whom 15 are from Brown. It originally contained only Brown men, but transfers and other causes resulted in the substitution of outsiders to fill the complement...
...over Youreq. Clapp attended the Plattsburg Training Camp in 1917 until he was transferred in August to the Ground School at M. I. T. He was commissioned on Dec. 17, 1917, and sailed for France Jan. 30, 1918, where he was attached to the 22d Aero Squadron, with which unit he served until reported missing last November...
Because of the fact that only forty percent of the required minimum of 100 students have enrolled in the Field Artillery Unit, at Princeton, it may not be possible to keep a unit there. AT the present time, only three Seniors, four Juniors, nine Sophomores, and 23 Freshmen, a total of 39 out of the 1,200 students of the university, have signified their intention of joining...
Those who enlist in the unit this spring are not required to enroll for the entire four year course and do not have to try for a commission. If they enroll, however, they must take two years of academic work in the military department, and attend one summer camp. This completes the basic course. Those who desire commissions may sign up for the remaining two years, and receive $142 a year from the government...
...time now seems at hand for us to swing back again to a normally balanced viewpoint on the subject. In other colleges the tide is already turning toward a renewed preparedness for possible war. At Princeton men are already signing up, though slowly at first, for the Field Artillery Unit to be formed there this summer. Columbia has established a form of military department, in which Government instructors will give courses designed to fit men for eventual commissions in the Infantry, Artillery, and Signal Service, College authorities all over the country are accepting one or the other of these alternate...