Word: bjornstadt
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Dates: during 1917-1917
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...fate of the hero of Captain Bjornstadt's novel, which was so eagerly devoured by the literature lovers of last year's Reserve Officers' Training Corps, has kept many of our military students in constant trepidation. Sergeant Hill, when last encountered, was still leading Quinn and Peterson on a desperate patrol toward the lines of the hostile Blues. With the skill of a Peo, Bjornstadt brought his hero into action and with bullets whizzing about him left this second Roland to his fate. What happened to Sergeant Hill? Even Captain Hamlin, Chief of Sections, was unable to answer this mystifying...
WASHINGTON, D. C., April 23.--A message from Captain Cordier and Captain Bjornstadt this evening stated that the outlook for the establishment of a camp at Harvard for the training of officers for the Reserve Officers' Corps was favorable. President Lowell and Captain Cordier were in conference today with the Secretary of War and with members of the War College Division of the General Staff, and laid before them the plans and arguments for the establishment of a unit here. The case is now before the War Department and a definite decision is expected tomorrow. Government regulation prevents the publication...
Captain A. W. Bjornstadt, U. S. A., in charge of the Reserve Army Section of the War Department, visited Cambridge yesterday for the purpose of conferring with Captain Cordier and President Lowell. Captain Bjornstadt stated that the War Department heartily approved of Captain Cordier's program of instruction and that other officers and non-commissioned officers would be detailed to assist...
...When this plan is in full running order, which take a few weeks to effect," said Captain Bjornstadt, "it will be the most comprehensive program of training for reserve officers in the United States...
Word was received last night by President Lowell from General Hugh L. Scott and Captain A. W. Bjornstadt that the Reserve Officers' Training Unit has been definitely established at the University, and the official announcement from the Government will be made today. This finally puts the military plans of the University on an official basis, and the work done here will now be fully recognized by the Government...
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