Word: generals
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...pass in review with the evenest ranks may bear little relation to fighting in France, but it does give a good hint as to the general effectiveness of a regiment. The best way to convince the University committee that this Corps is actually more than a mob of enthusiastic boys is to make that review one worthy of praise. It so happens that the members of the committee cannot be present in Cambridge to watch the daily progress of the regiment, and they will naturally judge much from what they see today. Make their impression one which will make them...
...course we have heard more about the British sub-commanders, but until this latest drive upon Cambrai, mention of General Byng had been quite casual. He is now on the way to hero worship and we shall presently be deluged with details as to what he eats, how he behaved in school and who his favorite authors...
...recall and the name of a Turkish or Bulgaria or even an Austrian general? Of the German field commanders who are generals by professional attainment rather than because of birth, we remember hardly as many as half a dozen. There was von Kluck, for instance, who lost at the Marne, and there are von Buelow in Italy and Mackensen. Do you readily think of any more? Among the French such names as Foch and de Castelnau occur, but when recently the command of the French forces in Italy was assigned, presumably to an officer of merit, the name was entirely...
...Paragraph B, Uniform Regulations, General Orders No. 11 are herewith modified so that uniforms are not compelled to be worn at classrooms, sections and lectures. WM. F. FLYNN, Major, U. S. A., Retd., Commanding...
...General Orders...