Word: beith
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Captain Ian Hay Beith, the British soldier who fought in France early in the war, and recorded his impressions and experiences in "The First Hundred Thousand," will deliver an address before a meeting of law and graduate students at the University on Sunday, November 11. The meeting, which will be held in Phillips Brooks House at 8 o'clock, is the second of a series under the auspices of the Law School Society and the Graduate School Society, and will be open exclusively to men in the law and graduate schools...
...Captain Beith, or Ian Hay, as he is known among authors, will speak upon some subject connected with the war and with his recent visit to the trenches. He is well qualified to speak in this regard, having served himself under Kitchener. He enlisted soon after the beginning of the war, and spent six months of the fall and winter of 1914-15 in training at Aldershot, England, in the Tenth Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders. After training for six months, the regiment was sent to France and went into action among the "first hundred thousand." While at the front...
...outlining the main features of modern warfare, Captain Ian Hay Beith emphasized the new significance of the airplane. It has passed out of its period of experimentation and into a new sphere of deadly effectiveness--spying out the enemy's territory, directing artillery fire, raiding hostile encampments, and making surprise attacks impossible. Briefly, "the command of the air determines which side shall gain the victory...
...late there has been an unfortunate attitude towards aviation in the University, an attitude which appears more and more ridiculous in the light of Captain Beith's remarks. The tendency has been to smile at the men who left for Miami and Newport News as sportsmen off for a good time, attracted by the danger and the thrills of airplaning, and not by any practical value it might have in war-fare. Now it appears that the success of the army will depend upon these so called "adventurers...
...situation in the colleges of England before the war broke out was somewhat different from that in your American universities and colleges today," said Captain Ian Hay Beith, in an interview with a CRIMSON reporter just before his lecture in Tremont Temple yesterday afternoon. "You see, we had had our Officers' Training Corps as a regular institution in the life of the British student, which prepared the undergraduates for ordinary military service, the work of the corps being extremely popular and purely voluntary. When a man in training had passed an examination proving his ability as a potential officer...