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For God, For [ ], and For Yale

Yalies in the Military
Published Friday, December 1, 2006

Some time after their charge up San Juan Hill, the Rough Riders stormed Woolsey Hall.

The mood was electric that June evening in 1915. Twenty five hundred Yale men were inside the marble doors, anticipating the call of the former Rough Rider commander, Major-General Leonard Wood. Yale professors were jumping on stage, fiery-eyed and trying to make history. Explorer-professor Hiram Bingham III offered up a silver “Loving Cup,” valued at $100, to the class that enlisted the most men in training.

“At the present time, the country is woefully unprepared to resist a great...

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