Word: forte
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Yale candidates for the intensive training camps are specialists in artillery, due to the experience gained by the Yale batteries last summer, it is likely that they will not be divided among the various camps according to geographic divisions, but will be sent in a body to Fort Sill, Okla. In regard to this, the commandant of the Yale unit, Captain Danford, has issued the following statement through the Yale News...
...very probable that all Yale artillery candidates who have made application for camps will go to Fort Sill. The artillery camp there offers the best facilities for that branch of the service in which the University is most interested; and, although nothing definite has been announced as yet, the chances are good for such a plan and we are all hoping that it will materialize...
There are several strong reasons for the establishment of a unit of the Training Corps in Cambridge which may secure a favorable decision from the War Department. At present, with the transfer of that camp which was to have been stationed at Fort Ethan Allen to Plattsburg, there is no camp in New England. The location of the University at the centre of a group of colleges makes it particularly available...
...benefit of the American Ambulance Service in Europe. These are the first French films to come to this country. They show not only the American Ambulance in action, but also the armies on the western front and many struggles and battlefields familiar to Americans through press dispatches. Fort Douaumont, the battle of the Ancre, and the Allied Armies at Salonika are all shown, and the famous "tanks" are seen in action...
Captain James A. Shannon, of the 11th Cavalry, U. S. A., has been detailed by the War Department as an instructor in Military Science and Tactics at the University. Captain Shannon has left his regiment, now stationed at Fort Bliss, Tex., and will report at Cambridge as soon as possible...