Word: fields
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Those sent to the field artillery school at Camp Zachary Taylor, Louisville, Ky., are: G. B. Cabot '20, D. J. Dempsey, Jr., '20, M. H. Dill '20, C. W. Eliot, 2nd, '20, P. C. Lloyd '20, J. W. Lowes '19, W. B. Plummer '20, A. L. Putnam '20, P. L. Romaine '22, F. D. Schurz '20, G. McD. Weeks...
Plans for the establishment of a "field university" in Europe immediately after the actual fighting ceases have just been announced by Professor Erskine of Columbia University. It will be for the purpose of educating American soldiers overseas during the period of demobilization. The enterprise came into being due to a survey of the educational needs of American soldiers abroad by A. S. Stokes, secretary of Yale University. The project will be financed by the Y. M. C. A., and controlled by it under the supervision of the military authorities...
...veteran, and its time for practice is limited to one hour a day by war regulations, but nevertheless, it is making good headway and opened its season successfully by defeating Norwich University 22 to 0 a week ago last Saturday. Dartmouth has also scheduled games with Syracuse, at Spring-field, Mass., on November 2; Pennsylvania University, at Philadelphia, on November 9; Middlebury, at Hanover, on November 16; and Brown, on Braves Field or Fenway Park, Boston, on November 23. The game with Pennsylvania may possibly be shifted to Thanksgiving...
...gave him their best efforts. But the most striking thing about him was the quickness with which he won the affection and respect of the students. Unfortunately much of his time at first had to be spent in the office; he could take little part in the field work until towards the end. And yet he never stood upon the platform of Sanders Theatre to make even a simple announcement without prolonged hand clapping. Few commanding officers have made such a quick, positive, unanimous appeal to the men under them. He was simple, alert, intelligent, straight-forward, kind, with fire...
...secondly, because it will mean for every man in service the unmixed happiness or lasting discontent of his later years whether or not he is conscious of having done his utmost to serve his country in a time of crisis. But we must remember that efficient service in any field can be rendered only after a period, oftentimes reaching into years, of laborious and intensive preparation. For many of us that period is now becoming a matter of weeks; it concerns us all the more, therefore, to take care that all of the work which we do shall...