Word: combatted
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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There will be no drill for members of the University Corps on Monday, April 22, it was announced yesterday at the Headquarters Office. Section meetings, however, will take place at the usual hours. On Tuesday afternoon, April 23, the first combat exercises of the calendar year will be held at Fresh Pond, with the entire regiment participating...
...April 22 copies of plans for the first combat exercises will be given out to all members of Sections 3, 4, 5 and 6 in order that they may prepare themselves thoroughly to understand their duties for the following day. All men of the other sections in Military Science will go over the plans in class before the exercises takes place. For the practical training which is to come twice a week on the various maneuver grounds, the regiment will be divided each time so that the men of one battalion will be engaged in repairing the Fresh Pond sector...
...appointments of officers and non-commissioned officers to hold office until the end of the College year will be published on the first day of the spring term. The two organizations that are executing the combat problem will be divided into two full companies according to the new American regulations, and during the exercises battalion commanders will act as captains...
With firm confidence in the ultimate mercy of that Providence which regulates all things transient and trivial in the minds of men, I enter the lists of the educational combat as an humble suppliant, who only desires to know why these things...
...flew till 11 o'clock and then went back to A--. I had one flight with P. R. We went up for combat work. It was certainly interesting, to say the least. Each of us tried to get into position where he could shoot the other. I would see him coming, for instance, and just as he got in range, perhaps 400 yards, and above and behind me in good position for him, I would try to turn sharply under him and after he passed above make a renversement and be behind him and under his tail. A machine cannot...