Word: goings
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Secretary BAKER for the wisdom and open-mindedness he has shown in reconsidering the decision that only a part of the young officers now in training should be assigned to service. He now announces that work will be found for practically all, only a very few will go upon the waiting list...
...none other. The assembly then must be of a mass meeting nature and the tickets distributed should not be given out to family or friends; we want the University itself, not its followers. The lecture will be worth while, that is certain, and no one who comes will go home feeling that he has wasted an hour. Keep those tickets, then, and appear on Thursday, in the New Lecture Hall...
...Friday, the entire regiment will have battalion muster. The first and second battalions will go through the ceremony in the morning, and the third as its regular drill hour in the afternoon. Company commanders are responsible for preparing the muster rolls. Blank forms for this purpose should be obtained by them at Military Headquarters...
...earth, of twisted barbed wire and steel shell fragments, timbers and bits of concrete gun emplacements, pieces of personal clothing, shrapnel, broken rifles, unexploded bombs, rifle shells, human bones,--all shattered and ghastly and horrible. We were in front of the English batteries and could hear the English shells go singing and hurtling through the air over our heads, and the regular answer of the German sheels, seeking out the English batteries, whining past us and then exploding with a loud report, throwing high into the air great columns of earth and smoke. Further and further we made...
...officers. Theirs is no easy task; they have as much work to carry on as their predecessor, yet with only half the old number of assistants. So we must get out of our heads the idea that these elections are merely a formality. Good officers and a respected class go hand in hand...