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Arthur Beane '11, who has been Graduate Secretary of Phillips Brooks House from the time of his graduation until September of this year, is now engaged in war work at Slatersville, R. I., as super-personnel director of a group of cotton mills. He is in charge of the employment bureau of the Slatersville Finishing Company, under Mr. Henry P. Kendall of Boston. Besides his duties as director of personnal, Mr. Beane also has under his supervision the problem of housing. He will remain in his present position until the end of the war. He was Social Service Secretary during...
...marches on. Four days later I was back in a well-remembered pays with a new-to-me Section. The men are a splendid bunch--the French staff congenial--and the division is a crack one. Two Chasseur Battalions and two infantry regiments--all but one of the Chasseur groups wear the Medaille Militaire fourrageres, and that group has the Croix de Guerre fourrageres, so it is quite a division. I have not been through any great excitement yet--but have hopes...
...Haven last Thursday Yale began its 219th year fully mobilized for the stern work at hand with an enrolment close to 2500 men, of whom only about 300 are in the university's non-military group. The other 2200 are registered among the many branches of national service and before the year is out their number will probably be increased to nearly 6000. There is at New Haven the only college artillery unit in the country, while the Sheffield Scientific School is the Army laboratory centre, and the Yale Naval Unit is so far the largest established. At present...
...regards the military situation, the new organization was urgently needed. The War Department has secured for it self a group of men whom it can train as it wills and upon whom it can call at any time for needed officer material. The advantages of a standardized system of training in addition to a centralized system of control mean a great increase in our military efficiency. Fundamentally sound in theory, designed to meet the needs of the colleges as well as, of the nation, the S. A. T. C. should prove one of the most successful ventures...
...untiring devotion of the volunteer instructors who have taken up the task which many of them would have been glad to avoid, and carried it forward with conspicuously good results. They have given unsparingly of their time and strength, and it is highly unfortunate that the group as a whole should be pilloried for the slight mistakes which one or two may have made. It is furthermore unjust to make the inference that the recent reorganization of the Corps is due to their incompetence. As a matter of fact, the change is chiefly one of administrative detail,--an attempt...