Word: englanders
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Alfred Noyes, the English poet, whose writings have been so popular in this country, will read selections from his poems and relate some of his war-time experiences in England, at the Copley Plaza this evening at 8.30 o'clock. Mr. Noyes is one of the best known of the younger English poets and his verses on the war have been widely read in this country. He has recently been lecturing on invitation of the faculty at Princeton. He will read chiefly selections from his poems on submarine warfare, which were suppressed in England by the official censor...
...meeting in Lorimer Hall, Tremont Temple, this evening at 7.30 o'clock for the purpose of stimulating interest in the enlistments in the First Corps Cadets which has just changed from an infantry into an engineering corps. This engineering corps is the only one of its kind in New England, and it and the 22d Engineers of New York City are the only ones in the United States...
...situation in the colleges of England before the war broke out was somewhat different from that in your American universities and colleges today," said Captain Ian Hay Beith, in an interview with a CRIMSON reporter just before his lecture in Tremont Temple yesterday afternoon. "You see, we had had our Officers' Training Corps as a regular institution in the life of the British student, which prepared the undergraduates for ordinary military service, the work of the corps being extremely popular and purely voluntary. When a man in training had passed an examination proving his ability as a potential officer...
...great public schools of England had much the same system as the colleges before the war with the junior branch of the Officers' Training Corps. At the end of their courses the graduates mostly went into civil life, but the experience they received in military drill while in the schools proved invaluable when the time for action came. You see, when the war broke out there was an immediate call for officers and instantly there was a response from 25,000 of the old boys, who had received training as officers in the different colleges and schools...
...training schools and military hospitals. All the students have gone to the front and many have sacrificed their lives for their country. None have remained, not even the theological students, whom the church will not accept if they are fit for military service. In regard to compulsory service in England, we have had to come to it, there being no other alternative, and have had it for about a year...