Word: britisher
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...supposed to be is a training school for officers. If your country has need of you, it is primarily as future officers. The war is not going to be over in a few weeks; there will be, as you know, a terrible loss of officers. Look at the British casualty lists for the last few weeks, and note the proportion of officers killed and wounded. It is by preparing yourselves as fully as possible to fulfil that function eventually that you will show the most intelligent realization of your duty. If you go and drive an ambulance in Italy...
Last Saturday we heard of the Germans on Kemmel Hill, of Ypres almost certainly lost, and the enemy storm heavy over the Channel ports. Today we read of a British Cabinet Minister warning his countrymen against a coming peace offensive. And yet the week that is gone has witnessed no Waterloo, no battle of the Marne, though it may be that Von Arnim's defeat between Ypres and Locre may be discovered some day to have borne a much greater significance than the very considerable importance we attach to it now. What we are witnessing today in the spirit...
...military art. A number of R. O. T. C. men who are going to the June camp will have an excellent chance at Camp Devens to become specialists. They will be instructed in the Hebert system of physical training, and in addition, either grenade throwing or the British bayonet manual. As they will be given an intensive course in connection with the O. T. C. camp there is no doubt that this instruction will be thorough and efficient. The training will be of particular value at the University camp later in the summer, when these men will act as instructors...
...limited number of men who are to attend the June Government Camp will be given an opportunity to pursue a course in the Hebert system of physical and either bayonet exercise, according to the British system, or grenade throwing, at Camp Devens in connection with the O. T. C. from May 13 to 25, inclusive. Volunteers, who will obligate themselves to act as assistant instructors in the University R. O. T. C. 1918 Summer Camp, are directed to sign up at Headquarters by noon tomorrow...
...Regiment will attend the lecture by Colonel Applin of the British Army on Monday evening, May 6, to be held in New Lecture Hall at 8 P. M. Companies will be formed as for other lectures...