Word: coasts
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Coast Artillery relay at Newbury street armory, Boston...
Among the other events in the Coast Artillery Meet on January 29, the University short relay team will meet the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the first race of the season. A good race is assured, for last year the University relay only beat Technology through Bingham's sprint past Guething in the last lap. The 1919 team will race the Tech. Freshmen the same evening...
...That an effective defence against an enterprising enemy in the Philippines could be made with a deficiency of 33 per cent of the manning details of the coast defences of Manila and Subig Bay and with a mobile force of a little over 7,000 American troops, supplemented by less than 6,000 Philippine Scouts, is manifestly impossible; that the great water-way of the Panama Canal cannot be protected against the operations of a first-class military power by the present or proposed garrison we contemplate placing there without the power and ability to reinforce it rapidly by troops...
Allow me to comment on the interesting and typical viewpoint presented by the communication published in Wednesday's CRIMSON. Mr. Crusius is perfectly right in assuming that we are in no danger from foreign invasion if we have adequate coast-defences. But what are adequate conast-defences? Does Mr. Crusius assume that we already have, or can possibly have within the next ten years, a navy of sufficient strength alone to stand guard over our enormous coast-line? For I neglect any mention of fortifications which we have or might build, as being perfectly useless in repelling an invasion...
...issue seems clear. Either we are in no danger that cannot be met by adequate coast-defenses, besides such an army and navy as we have thought ourselves to possess, or the danger is such that we must prepare to mobilize all the resources of the country in men and means after the French or German plan. P. N. CRUSIUS...