Word: french
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Probably the greatest recognition by the Government of the value of the training was shown by the fact that 550 Reserve Officers were ordered to Cambridge on August 19 for a three weeks course of training under the officers of the French Mission. This period was later extended to September 15, at which time the officers received orders to report at their respective divisional cantonments where they will in turn act as instructors in French tactics...
...eagerly, so optimistically, and so long expected, was naturally disheartening, since it seemed to render negligible all effort of men in the Corps. The withdrawal of the Army officers detailed here is another, and a more immediate misfortune. Rumors of other changes, of the detachment of the French Mission, and of radical modifications of the training schedule, however foolish and baseless such rumors may be, have had a sorry effect on the firmness of purpose of many...
...course of lectures of special interest to the general public and to teachers of history in schools will be given by members of the Department of History and by the visiting French officers. These lectures will be entitled "Historical Aspects of the Present War," and for the convenience of the largest possible public they will be given late in the afternoon in the New Lecture Hall. Professor Haskins will have the opening lecture on "The War and the Teacher"; Professor A. C. Coolidge will give ten lectures on "The Historical Antecedents of the War"; Colonel Azan and other officers will...
Home Library: G. W. Allport '19, R. J. Donaldson '20, A. F. Fay '19, R. L. French Sp, J. L. Glover unc, R. M. Lovett '18, R. T. Lyford '18, D. F. Sullivan '18, R. Tapley '19, E. K. Warren...
Manifold aspects of the world struggle will be treated in the course. Commandant Azan and other officers of the French Mission will describe phases of the actual warfare employed in Europe; Professor E. F. Gay will discuss the economic side of the conflict; Professor R. H. Lord and Dr. J. Klein will treat the Russian and South American connection; Professor A. C. Coolidge '87 will detail the historical antecedents; and Professor A. B. Hart '80 and others will consider a more strictly national viewpoint. An extra examination hour will be added for those who wish to take the course...