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Emerson, '16 Killed in Action

William Kay Bond Emerson, Jr., '16, of New York, has been reported killed in action on the western front while serving with the American Ambulance Service, according to a dispatch received here yesterday. After leaving College in 1916 he studied for a year at M. I. T. and then went to France with the American Red Cross. He was a member of his Freshman crew, the University football and crew squads, and an editor of the CRIMSON while in College.

In addition, General Pershing reports that Lieutenant Douglas Campbell '17, captain of the University gymnastic team last year, shot down last Sunday an enemy biplane containing two officers, making his second enemy plane destroyed.

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