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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...could be used to advantage during those months for the training of large bodies of men, much of the training of which must be done in the open; but, there is no telling what the exigencies of the present war may require and it may become necessary to keep a large number of troops at the post throughout the winter. While this is my first visit to Plattsburg, I was for a year stationed at Fort Ontario, where climatic conditions are practically the same as here...
...share can be nothing less than the furthest dollar which we may spare from other and less vital needs. We may never give back to those children the happiness that they have lost, nor abate their desolation in one degree. Yet we may from our abundance spare enough to keep them from starvation, that they may grow to independence free from the stigma of pauperism. It is not charity that is asked of us. It is the payment of a small interest on a great debt. The children of brave men are due from the world opportunity to become brave...
...learning that the German morale is not yet broken, that some millions of the finest war-trained troops, armed with all that modern science may give to the soldier, are holding fiercely that French and Belgian land which they took, and with all their power mean to keep...
...equal willingness to give--of their time and work and intelligence--must come from the undergraduates and from other members of the Harvard Regiment. It is this for which I appeal. Enrolment must be speedy and complete. Every man must do his bit and his best to keep the Regi- ment "in the pink of condition" and at the height of efficiency. Let us show the country, each one, of us by his own individual effort, that we mean to put this thing through. Let us show the Government that we can equal, if not beat, them at their...
...more groups of men, 20 in each unit, will sail for Bordeaux to join the Norton-Harjes Corps on Saturday, May 5, and Saturday, May 12. This leaves about 20 more men to be recruited for the sailings of the two weeks following. After that only men to keep the existing corps filled will be needed. The following sailed last Saturday: B. C. Cartmell ocC, G. Hall 2Dv, and J. S. Pfaffman ocC. R. M. Lloyd '19 goes next week. The work on the cars for the two new units is progressing satisfactorily...