Word: infantryman
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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March 7: Lieut. Morize: The Infantryman during Combat...
...interesting as it is important in battle. Before I came over I had never heard of such a man, indeed it's been a succession of hearing, learning, and putting into practice new things, new methods of killing the enemy. The old fashioned all round infantryman is but a shade of past glories; today everyone is a specialist in some one particular thing, and informed in all things generally. Gas, with its terrifying results, trench mortars, automatic rifles, grenades, bayonets, wire entanglements, trenches, communication systems, aeroplanes,--what not? All have men who speak of nothing save them. War is even...
Major Morse, a Canadian infantryman, who fought at Vimy Ridge, was an interested spectator. "I am very much impressed with this work," he said to a CRIMSON reporter. "The discipline is remarkably good. It has been one of our greatest difficulties to maintain good order in the trenches. Although your system of trenches is not very large, it is a very good reproduction of similar ones on the Western Front. Altogether, the R. O. T. C. training last summer was the most practical in the country, and the work of this year's Corps promises to be just as good...
...Harvard Training Camp must be supported entirely by contributions. The United States Government can at this time supply only the necessary rifles. Funds are, therefore, needed to supply each recruit with the standard equipment, of an infantryman. Intrenching tools must be purchased, and all the equipment necessary to a field kitchen equipment, when the Corps is encamped away from the barracks. It is essential that in every detail the facilities afforded at the Harvard camp should equal those afforded at the Federal camps. Also, in order to enable all property qualified men to join the Corps, it will be necessary...