Word: east
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...spontaneous full-sweeping effort of Harvard undergraduates to get what training they could at a time when official opportunities for military instruction were at a minimum, the regiment at Cambridge early became a rallying point for the spirit of national service in colleges throughout the East. Improving in discipline and in effectiveness, it received during the following year, as a merited boon, the able corps of French officers who came to supplement and reinform the instruction already being provided by competent American officers. So prepared, many of its members were gladly received at the first regular Plattsburg officers' training camps...
Several thousand soldiers and sailors will be in the Stadium, and will march in review before the general officers who will be present. The east stands will be reserved for the Army; the west, for the Navy. The advance sale of tickets has so far greatly exceeded the expectations of the carnival management. Tickets at $2 and $1 can now be obtained...
...third battalion will drill this afternoon on the river embankment, or, in case of rain, under the east side of the Stadium, from...
...third battalion drills this afternoon on the river embankment, or in case of rain, under the east side of the Stadium, from 4.30 till 5.30 o'clock. Captain Amann will deliver a lecture this evening at 7 o'clock to the members of Military Science 2. Tomorrow evening, Major Flynn will lecture to the elementary course on military organization...
...fourth course will be by H. Charles Woods, F.R.G.S., author of "The Danger Zone of Europe," "La Turquie et ses Voisins," etc., late Military Diplomatic Correspondent of the London Evening News, on "War and Diplomacy in the Balkans." It also includes eight lectues: 1. The Near East before the Great War. 2. The Near East in the Great War. 3. The Danube to the Egean and the Adriatic to the Bosphorus. 4. The Baghdad Railway in the War. 5. The Dardanelles. 6. Saloniki. 7. Constantinople. 8. Mesopotamia. The Future of the Balkans. This last series will be held on Wednesdays...