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Show PUN TO COM OEGREEON 1ES Utah Agricultural College, His Alma Mater, to Consider Con-sider Honoring Alumnus. Brigadier-General Frank T. Hines will soon be permitted to attach LL. D. to his name, if the efforts of prominent friends and former college associates, including several state officers and alumni of the Utah Agricultural college, prevail. The matter will come before the board of trustees of the institution at the next meeting, which will be held early in September. Sep-tember. Brigadier-General Hines is a graduate of the Utah Agricultural college and received re-ceived his first military training there. At the time of the breaking out of the Spanish-American war, he was captain of a cadet company, and his knowledge of military tactics was a great help when he volunteered for service. He was made a second lieutenant in the Utah battery during the war. Afterward he was given the same rank in the coast artillery of the regular army. He was appointed to the artillery school at Fort Monroe, Va., in 1904. He was graduated and promoted to first lieutenant. In 190S he again attended at-tended school. This time he qualified in the advance rade examinations and was made a captain of coast artillery. Just before the outbreak of the world war he was transferred to the quartermaster staff. During the war Brigadier-General Hines was a member of the general gen-eral staff corps, which position he assumed in October, 1017. He was put in charge of embarkation, and ary force. Brigadier-General Hines' s ' work as embarkation officer won for him 1 high praise in army circles, and he was i decorated with the distinguished service medal. He has been decorated also with the Uegion of Honor, and with the Order of Sacred Treasure, by the French and Japanese governments, respectively. Brigadier-General Hines's brother, Major Ma-jor Charles Hines. is senior instructor in coast artillery at West Point Military . academy. He was graduated from West I Point in the class of 1910. He was nine- teen months in France. |