Word: veteran
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...eleven is only now stepping into its fast stride. Coach Donovan has been giving his players strenuous drilling, however, and expects the team to start off the season with a victory. The Tufts aggregation has been developing rapidly in the last few weeks and because of its wealth of veteran material, expects to carry the pigskin back to Medford...
...Veteran at Dartmouth...
...Dartmouth football squad contains only one veteran, and its time for practice is limited to one hour a day by war regulations, but nevertheless, it is making good headway and opened its season successfully by defeating Norwich University 22 to 0 a week ago last Saturday. Dartmouth has also scheduled games with Syracuse, at Spring-field, Mass., on November 2; Pennsylvania University, at Philadelphia, on November 9; Middlebury, at Hanover, on November 16; and Brown, on Braves Field or Fenway Park, Boston, on November 23. The game with Pennsylvania may possibly be shifted to Thanksgiving...
...American Expeditionary Force in France. Most of us know of his heroic work with the Newfound-landers at Gallipoli, but the finest part of his career has been scarcely mentioned. After recovering from very serious wounds received in action, he was discharged from the British army as a veteran unfit for further service, and returned to America. When we declared war, however, and the draft was put in to effect, he was called for examination. In spite of his recent marriage and in spite of the advice of all his friends who knew that he was unfit for service...
...great many people Major Henry Lee Higginson's retirement as the patron of the Boston Symphony Orchestra will seem to be something very near a tragedy. It will seem so not merely because this public-spirited American, a veteran of the Civil War, a discriminating lover of music, and a wise user of wealth, ceases to be the chief supporter of the great orchestra he founded 37 years ago, but because his retirement comes at a time when he has been associated with the defence of the orchestra's conductor, Karl Muck, who has been arrested and interned...