Word: fields
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Harvard Training Camp must be supported entirely by contributions. The United States Government can at this time supply only the necessary rifles. Funds are, therefore, needed to supply each recruit with the standard equipment, of an infantryman. Intrenching tools must be purchased, and all the equipment necessary to a field kitchen equipment, when the Corps is encamped away from the barracks. It is essential that in every detail the facilities afforded at the Harvard camp should equal those afforded at the Federal camps. Also, in order to enable all property qualified men to join the Corps, it will be necessary...
Battery A. of the first field artillery division of the Massachusetts National Guard has issued a call for more volunteers. This organization has always been well represented by members of the University, and quite a number of undergraduates are already included in its membership. Inasmuch as the Massachusetts National Guard is at present scheduled to be called into active service on the 25th of next month, a campaign is being waged to recruit all branches up to war strength...
...dispatch has been received from Paris stating that John Edward Boit '12, a member of the American Ambulance Field Service, has been cited for distinguished service performed last September. Boit went to France in the spring of 1916 and has been in the second section of the American Ambulance Field Service, driving at Verdun, Hill 304, Dead Man Hill, and more recently in the Argonne forest. He was cited for carrying wounded men from the firing zone under heavy shelling from the German batteries...
According to the plan which the other companies of the regiment will follow, Companies C and D marched out to Fresh Pond this morning after the 8 o'clock section meetings, and remained there until evening, having lunch in the field. One more field kitchen has already been secured for the use of the Corps, although it will probably not be needed until the hike. It is at present stationed on Soldiers Field...
...Harvard R. O. T. C. are unlikely to be assigned to duty in the Quartermaster Corps, but some of them will probably be detailed for work heretofore done by regimental commissaries and quartermasters--now called "supply" officers. The fundamental distinction between the two kinds of service lies in the field in which the work is carried on. Line officers doing supply duty serve with their organizations wherever they chance to be, in camp, on the march, in reserve, on the firing line. They are simply detailed to see that the physical needs of the men are satisfied, as other officers...