Word: generality
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Efforts will be made by the Yale Athletic Council and the university faculty in a short time to formulate a definite general policy regarding the baseball and track teams and the crew. In none has it been decided whether meets with outside colleges will be arranged and whether definite university teams will be organized or not. At present there is material for fairly strong major-sport teams, and it is believed that hockey, basketball, swimming and water polo will also have successful seasons. No definite plans for hockey have been announced, but the basketball and swimming teams are already under...
...accepted applicants have been ordered to the 77th Division at Yaphank and will report to the Commanding General on January 5, 1918. They will be required to pay their own travelling expenses to the camp, but they will be reimbursed later at the rate of three and one-half cents per mile. Candidates for commissions are at liberty to buy their own uniforms in advance, but the War Department will not allow them any money for this purpose...
...relief to the needy among the civil population. My own time was devoted largely to a study of the vital statistics of the army and an inspection of the sani- tary conditions and the ambulance and hospital service at the Russian front. This brought me in contact with General Korniloff and other Russian officers and with the officers of the Russian Red Cross, and the Union of Zempsvos. We were amazed at the vast amount of relief work being done by these and other organizations in Russia. We in America scarcely realized that there have been four million sick...
...facts of the case are very simple. General Crozier, Chief of Ordinance, has admitted that although the Browning gun was adopted last May as the official light machine gun for our armies, not a single one of these weapons has as yet been turned out; moreover, it will be spring before the Ordnance Department will have them ready. So it is with all other necessary armaments. The French and English, anxiously awaiting our artillery, have to give up their own in order to equip our expeditionary force, and will have to continue to do so for many months...
...guns, our shells and our men to win this war; we have the men, but without arms they are useless. The Lewis gun scandal was apparently not sufficient to stir our Ordnance heads; if the present trouble does not wake them from their coma there ought to be a general house-cleaning in the War Department...