Word: chapters
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...book proper begins with a brief statement of the nature of war, and a summary of the military history and military policy of the United States. The first chapter also includes a refutation of the popular fallacies of our belief in our security from war, and in our ability to meet it without previous preparation, should it ever come. The second chapter discusses in detail the defences of the United States, and their organization. Chapter III depicts the enormous difficulties in the way of raising and supplying a volunteer army of the size we should need today, were we called...
With the fourth chapter, we reach a study of the making of a modern army. Starting with the individual fighting man, we are shown how he himself is trained, and later how he is fitted into the general scheme of a huge fighting machine. The discussion, which takes five chapters, treats not only the technical side of drill and organization, but also touches on the by-products of military training,--military habit, discipline, efficiency, self-confidence, self-control, orderliness, loyalty, and obedience...
There follows a sketch of the organized militia, and of the various summer military camps. Chapter XII is a narrative of a battle as it is really fought, explanatory of the part played by the various branches of the service, officers and men. The remainder of the book consists of advice to citizens in time of peace, and a creed for soldiers in time...
...University chapter of Phi Beta Kappa has selected, for its Commencement exercises, Professor Theodore W. Richards '86 as orator, and Robert Frost as poet...
...That the recipients of all degrees heretofore and hereafter granted by Harvard College, other than the recipients of the degree of Bachelor of Arts, Master of Arts, and Honorary degrees, whose rights are fixed by Chapter 173 of the Acts of 1865 as amended, shall be entitled to vote for Overseers to the same extent to which recipients of the degree of Bachelor of Arts may now so vote and under the same restrictions...