Word: details
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Pond by the French officers during the week, Major Azan, assisted by Professor Merriman, lectured to the Corps last night on "Practical Application of the Principles of Trench Construction." The general theory of support and communication trenches was taken up, and certain problems of construction were dealt with in detail...
...Pierce Hall where the Signal Corps recruits are housed. After reviewing the members of the radio school, some 110 strong, in uniform, the visitors, accompanied by the University officials, inspected the sleeping quarters and classrooms in Pierce Hall, and the equipment and classrooms in the Cruft Laboratory. A detail from the United States Marine Corps, under command of Captain J. A. Adams, which served as an escort to the party was drawn up on the lawn in front of Pierce Hall. The Marine Corps band played at intervals during the inspection which lasted about an hour...
...only the necessary rifles. Funds are, therefore, needed to supply each recruit with the standard equipment, of an infantryman. Intrenching tools must be purchased, and all the equipment necessary to a field kitchen equipment, when the Corps is encamped away from the barracks. It is essential that in every detail the facilities afforded at the Harvard camp should equal those afforded at the Federal camps. Also, in order to enable all property qualified men to join the Corps, it will be necessary to pay for the subsistence of a certain number after the time the men are obliged to live...
Captain Cordier will detail for this special training only such men as are recommended by the Business School on account of their special qualifications. The instruction will be given by professors in the Business School, assisted by Sergeant Harvey, of the Quartermaster Corps, who has been detailed from Washington for this purpose. Captain Bowen has supervision of this work...
...support lines were described, and the necessity for their strong fortification emphasized. Plans of a typical section of front were shown, and the various salients, machine gun and automatic rifle positions, and the relative position of the three lines of trenches with their necessary defences were described in detail...