Word: detailing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...assisted by comments and suggestions from the other Frenchmen. With the aid of diagrams the method of constructing the usual shelter trench was described, and instructions were given in the manner of erecting barbed wire entanglements and other obstructions. Bomb proofs, deep dugouts and other shelters were treated in detail, and the Corps was instructed in the art of their construction...
...last night in the Cruft Laboratory for men interested in signal corps work, Captain C. E. Russell, of the United States Signal Corps, emphasized the vital need for college men in this branch of the service. He spoke of the nature of the signal corps work and explained the details of the reserve battalion that he is now forming. Twenty-two members of the University enlisted last night, and with this number Captain Russell will form a nucleus for a signal corps class here. He will also detail an army officer to carry on the work. Professor J. W. Pierce...
...Corps, Quartermaster Officers' Reserve Corps, Engineer Officers' Reserve Corps, Ordnance Officers' Reserve Corps, Signal Officers' Reserve Corps. Application blanks may be obtained by writing to the respective sections just stated or to the Adjutant General at the War Department, Washington. Examinations will be set at intervals for applicants. The detail of such examinations, and the text-books recommended, may be found in General Order...
...immediate service. This is natural; it is good; but there is something better. The soldier's task requires patience in matters of which he cannot see the direct utility. Most undergraduates want to help the country in the coming conflict; but the Government itself has not yet formed in detail its plans for raising an army, or at least has not made them public, and the student is still more in the dark about the opportunities that will be open to him. Until he knows more he will do well to practice the first virtue of the soldier, the patient...
...Separates debates held with Yale and Princeton since 1895 and in the triangular debates which were inaugurated in 1909, the University has won 32 victories, Princeton 21 and Yale 17. In detail the scores are: Harvard, 19, Yale 7; Harvard 13, Princeton 9; Princeton 12,-Yale 10. The standing of the triangular score is as follows: Harvard 9, Princeton 7, Yale 5. There have been two triple ties three championships have gone to the University, two to Princeton and one to Yale...