Phillips Academy, Andover, in the Great War (Classic Reprint)

Download or read book Phillips Academy, Andover, in the Great War (Classic Reprint) written by Claude Moore Fuess and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-12 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Phillips Academy, Andover, in the Great War Although the editing of this volume has been decidedly a labor of love, it has been attended by difficulties of a most perplexing kind. He who undertakes to gather and publish records at once invites trouble and criticism. It can only be said that every effort has been used to make the list of men in service accurate and complete, and, whenever it is discovered that a name has been omitted, it will usually be found that the fault does not lie entirely with Phillips Academy. Circulars, return postcards, and letters have been sent, at one time or another, to every person on the address list of the school; and no avenue of approach to military and naval data has been left untraversed. The most difficult problem has been to decide where to draw the line in including men in service. If every Andover man who contributed in some way to winning our victory were mentioned, this book would certainly have to be enlarged to several volumes. It was necessary, therefore, to draw a formal and technical line between civilians and those who wore the uniform of our government. Red Cross and Y. M. C. A. workers have, however, been included, under separate headings. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.