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PRINCETON HAS OVER 3,000 MEN ENGAGED IN WAR WORK

1,500 COMMISSIONED

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There are about 3,000 Princeton men in service at the present time, according to statistics gathered by the university war records office. These figures do not represent the total number, as a few of the class secretaries, through whose efforts the records are compiled, have not made reports. The men are engaged in all branches of the service, from the army and navy to Red Cross and relief work.

Of the different arms of the service, 1,426 men are in the army, 389 in the navy, 287 in aviation, 27 in the Marine Corps, 392 in the Medical Corps. Of the noncombatant forms of service, 102 are in army Y. M. C. A. work, 46 in the Red Cross in executive capacity, and 36 are doing other forms of relief work.

Princeton has three Brigadier Generals, three Colonels, nine Lieutenant Colonels, 31 Majors, 320 Captains, 228 First Lieutenants, 931 Second Lieutenants, 31 Lieutenants of unknown grade, four Chaplains and 520 non-commissioned officers in the army.

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