Word: french
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...direct result of the informal conferences of the French Commission with the War Department, the American Government has determined to take over in easy instalments a large part of the motor ambulance and transport service of the French army, thus relieving many hundred French and at the same time training a large and indispensable corps of men for service with the American army when it arrives at the front. About one hundred sections of 36 men each--a total of 3,600 men--are to be sent to France as soon as they can be trained, equipped and transported...
...service have arrived in the past few days, from Dartmouth, Princeton, Yale, Bowdoin, Williams, Beloit and the University. They will go directly to Paris for a short period of training, and then leave for actual service, where the men will be divided up into sections and distributed along the French front where their services are most needed in order to relieve men for the front...
...certain extent the Reserve Officers' Training Corps of the University has for the last few days turned its time to extended order movements and combat exercises. In the first two battalions this work has comprised skirmish drills and sham engagements between troops, under the supervision of the French officers, while in the provisional battalion the men are being trained in the elementary evolutions of the open order, and also in the principles of fire control and the management of the rifle...
...meeting of the Overseers on Monday, George Lyman Kittredge '82 was elected to the newly established chair of Gurney Professor of English Literature. At the same meeting the two officers stationed here to assist Captain Cordier, and the six French officers were appointed members of the Faculty. They are: Captain William Storrs Bowen, Captain James A. Shannon, Major P. J. L. Azan, Major J. de Reviers de Mauny, Captain A. Dupont, Captain de Jarny, Lieutenant A. Morize, Second Lieutenant Jean Giraudoux...
Yesterday evening Major Azan's lecture on "Characteristics of the Present War and Conditions of Modern War fare" was given in the New Lecture Hall. After a short introduction in French by Major Azan himself, Professor Merriman delivered the lecture from a written translation of Major Azan's speech. The talk dealt with the conditions existing on the various battle-fronts, the different form of offense and defense with their relative values, and the importance on equipment as well as transportation in effectively carrying out an attack...