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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Today the Third Battalion is to spend the day at Fresh Pond in placing and digging entrenchments under the guidance of the French officers. Several hundred yards of the system of trenches which the Frenchmen have laid out are already completed, and the balance will be done in the next few days...
...have here as efficient instruction and rigid discipline as can be found anywhere, with the added advantage of good food and comfortable sleeping quarters. Two of the French officers will give instruction in the co-operation of the artillery with the infantry in active service. This co-ordination forms a most important factor in modern warfare. So much of the instruction being given here is equally necessary in the artillery that the benefit of the camp to Yale men will be incalculable...
...each, will probably be sent abroad immediately. The contingent is to become part of the Medical Enlisted Men's Reserve Corps, and will be among the first of the United States Army corps to reach France. The ambulance units will also give substantial assistance to the French ambulance service, and will, furthermore, serve as Harvard units through the duration of the war. Some insignia designating the distinctive corps will be given to the members...
...active engineering work of the University R. O. T. C. was begun yesterday, when Companies C and D, under the leadership of the French officers, spent the day near Fresh Pond, engaged in the outlining and construction of trenches. The Frenchmen have laid out a system of defences which include first and second line trenches, communication trenches and boyeaux, with bombproofs and dug-outs at intervals along the line. The plans also include machine gun positions and bombing posts. Two companies each day will devote their entire time to the study of these positions and the construction of a portion...
Professor Raoul Blanchard, exchange professor to the University from the University of Grenoble, will give the last of his three special lectures on French geographical subjects in the Geological Lecture Room of the University Museum this afternoon at 2.30 o'clock. The subject of the lecture this afternoon will be "Les Pyrenees Francaises," and this lecture, like the others of the series, will be delivered in French...