Word: englanders
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Alfred Noyes' reading of his own poems and his address on experiences in England, to take place at the Copley-Plaza Thursday, is an event that should awaken the interest of a large number of undergraduates. Mr. Noyes is one of the leading poets of the time, and he is particularly associated with American college poetry through his work at Princeton during the past few years. It is announced that the proceeds of the reading are to go to charity...
Captain Ian Hay Beith, British soldier, author and lecturer, will speak on "Modern Battlefield Tactics" in Tremont Temple this afternoon at 4.30 o'clock under the auspices of the New England headquarters of the Military Training Camps Association. It will be open to the public and members of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps are especially requested to attend...
...fall and winter of 1914-15 in training at Aldershot with the raw material from which Lord Kitchener formed the "first hundred thousand." His regiment, the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, was among the first sent to the front, and with others composed the first army sent to France by England, known as "the first hundred thousand" and also "K 1" and "Kitchener's Mob." Captain Beith has had a brilliant record as a soldier and has been frequently mentioned in the army reports for gallantry under fire...
...book, 'The First Hundred Thousand," Ian Hay is best known in this country, although he is rapidly acquiring a reputation as a forceful speaker and lecturer. In this widely read work he graphically pictured the conditions in England at the outbreak of the war, and told of the length of time required to train a body of volunteers to the efficiency necessary in modern warfare. He has been granted a furlough by the British War Office to lecture in this country on England's part...
America has her own individual civilization in the making. Yet the foundations of that civilization are laid deep in France and England. The debt we owe them may not be lightly cast aside. It is for their kind of civilization that the Allies are fighting. It is for our civilization...