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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...allies. But the cause is somewhat less just if those men whose only acquaintance with agriculture has consisted in cultivating a small-sized moustache or in cultivating unwilling acquaintances, seek that soil which they have never known. They will probably make excessively poor farmers. They might make, under a good top-sergeant, with good stiff work, middling fair constituents of the rank and file...
...Armenians were hostile to the Russians and determined to show the Turks that they were good soldiers. They hurled the Russians back into Russia and gave the Turks a chance to murder a great number of Russian women and children. The Armenians complained of this and as a result were disarmed and made the slaves of the Turkish soldiers. Many escaped and the Turks on finding it somewhat difficult to persuade those friends with whom they had taken refuge to give them up to be shot as deserters, a general massacre was ordered. The "Butcher Regiment," made up of former...
...that all Yale artillery candidates who have made application for camps will go to Fort Sill. The artillery camp there offers the best facilities for that branch of the service in which the University is most interested; and, although nothing definite has been announced as yet, the chances are good for such a plan and we are all hoping that it will materialize...
College Men Will Make Good Officers...
...because he lost all his veterans in the retreat from Moscow and there were no experienced men to lead the troops. It is estimated that 60 per cent. of the French soldiers are brave or cowardly just in proportion as their commander shows these emotions. You must not spoil good material for officers by enlisting aimlessly now, or until special circumstances arise to warrant such action. For the present, Yale men should content themselves with making themselves fit to answer the call when it comes. The draft plan may fail, for it is impossible to tell how serious the resistance...