Word: general
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...lists for delegates to the annual Student Conference at Northfield, which is to be held this year from June 13 to June 21, inclusive, are now open. All undergraduates who desire to attend are requested to leave their names with Arthur Beane '11 as soon as possible. Although no general canvass for enrolment among the students will be made this year, all men who are interested in the work of the convention may obtain at the Phillips Brooks House descriptions of Northfield and an outline of the history and plans of the conference...
...before Colonel Azan two days ago, an opportunity was offered the corps to redeem itself for the wretched showing before Colonel Applin a week before. During the week, we had benefited from the fervent practice of the manual which had been the rule, and we felt that there was general improvement. Accordingly, we waited with some measure of confidence for Colonel Azan's judgment...
...school for general officers, which was begun at Camp Devens yesterday, should do more to build up coordination among all the arms of the service than any other effort yet undertaken in the cantonments on this side of the water. Its story, however, has not all been told when this point has been set down to its credit. Another great advantage of the new school is the recognition it gives to the fact that no man can successfully be both teacher and pupil at the same time. In all his work as chief of the American Expeditionary Force, General Pershing...
...know that there is no mind on earth capable of predicting how much time may be available for completing the training of units after they arrive in France. We see that the one right thing to do on this side of the Atlantic is what General Pershing is doing behind the fighting lines--to wit, making the best possible use of every possible moment. One thing is certain, no officer can ever be too well trained. That he should not be too little trained, the school now opened at Devens gives promising new assurance. --Boston Transcript...
Lieutenant James Palache '18, of Farmington, Conn., has been killed in action in France during a recent battle. His name was published incorrectly in Sunday's papers and his address given as New York in a dispatch from General Pershing, and it was not discovered until yesterday that he was the one referred to Palache prepared at the Thatcher School in California, and was manager of his Freshman baseball team...