The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-07-21
SEWANEE QUINTET
OF WAR VETERANS
AWARDED DEGREES
Five Men Who Left College to
Serve Nation in Great Con-
fIiCt Given Credit for
Months of DANGER.

SEWANEE, Tenn, July 21.-Five
young men who responded to Uncle
Sans call for volunteers early in 1917
and left their classes in the junior year
at the University Of the South, have
been awarded bachelor degrees, special
gratis, by their alma mater. They are:
Robert Francis Hodge, Chattanooga,
who vas with the Sewanee ambulance
unit in France; Rogers Bethune Tullis,
of Montgomery, Ala, who also won the
Croix de Guerre; William White Pal
mer. of South Carolina, who was a
member Of the aviation corps, and madt
a specially distinguished record, win
ming numerous medals, all three of
whom received the bachelor Of science
degree. George Lake Inge, Of Missis-
sippi, and Ralph Nesbit Shannon, of
South Carolina, were granted the de-
gree of bachelor of arts, special gratis.
The faculty determined on this ac-
ton, n it was ~concurred in by the
board of trustees. It was reasoned that
as the students left the college in good
standing to enter the first and second
officers training camps, ambulance,
and served a year or more in fulfilllng
a noble trust, they were due the credit
on the Sewanee records.
Flag in Chapel.
In another way also the University OF
the South will honor her sons who
ventured all for their nation. This will
be a daily tribute of praise and appre-
| citation that the student body and ad-
ministrators will give as they glance at
the new flag of the Sewanee ambulance
unit. This banner was hung recently
in All Saints chapel, and its folds Of
purple and white epitomize the service
rendered by the unit of SO men in
France. Attached to the banner Is the
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whole by the French government, the
Croix de Guerre with the white star
in recognition Of distinguished service
rendered while connected with the 123d
French division. In addition, six mem
bers of the unit received the same en-
biem for conspicuous bravery and SER
vice.
During its year and a half Of service
the n was engaged behind the lines
and ina the lines from Lorraine into
Belgium, going through some of the
heaviest fighting of the war, being al
most constantly on active duty, and on
numerous occasions being in danger Of
humiliation. But despite@ the fact OF
TINS continuous service in the danger
zone, not a single man was killed in
action, and only n lost his life, S, A.
Arnold, who Joined the unit after it
left Sewanee, and who died of exposure
in April, 1918.
IL was no unusual thing for the unit
to receive orders to proceed to distant
posts, being exposed on the way to
shells and bombs, interspersed with gas
by way of variety, along roads fun of
shell holes and in inky darkness. Organ
lied in June, ~1917, the ambulance unit
left Sewanee at once for Allentown, Pa.
After a short training period it sailed
Tor overseas service, reaching France
in September. Teh unit was attached a.
different times to the Add and f1o2d
French divisions, and carried out its re-
lief work on the Toul and Somme.
Aisne sectors.
The flag was presented to the col
lege by Bishop Albion w. Knight, vice
chancellor, on behalf of the unit and
received by the Rev. Henry D, Phillips,
chaplain.