Word: fields
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...close of the S. A. T. C. Camp held at Plattsburg from July 18 to September 16, 59 University men were commissioned as second lieutenants. The majority received commissions in infantry, but a certain percentage secured appointments as field artillery officers. These latter will attend a two months' artillery school at Camp Taylor, Louisville, Kentucky, and will from there be assigned to regular units. Of the officers commissioned in infantry the greater number have been stationed as instructors in the various colleges east of the Mississippi, while the remainder have been ordered to Camp Grant, Rockford, Illinois...
...shall still depend largely for the carrying out of the work in the class-room and in the field on our Faculty instructors; and the debt which the University owes these instructors is the greater because it is apparently unappreciated. C. C. LANE...
...month that was covered before in three. Most of the work will consist of drill and conferences, but all the phases of modern warfare, such as bayonet fighting, trench-building, the use of gas, and the construction of obstacles, will be studied. A week's hike under full field equipment will conclude the work...
...long been an open question with the undergraduate how many courses he should take each year. Some take only four, either because they wish to do a great deal of work in a small field, or through sheer laziness. Perhaps the majority take five courses, but, in the past at least, the six-course man has not been alarmingly prevalent. President conditions, however, are such that the reasons for taking a larger number of courses have become much strengthened...
...instruction and the enforcement of the regulations that concern him are not to be in the hands of a group of men, many of whom may have had less military experience than he himself, but rather of those who have directed the work of the Corps on Soldiers Field, in barracks and at Barre. In any military body strong centralized authority and its complement, centralized responsibility, are always essential; beyond a doubt their absence has menaced the strength of our military organization this year. Equally certain, however, is the fact that the new order will re-establish that discipline, respect...