Word: latters
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...organization of the school has been definitely settled. The course will consist of two terms, each of two months' duration, and instruction will be given in navigation, ordnance, seamanship, and naval regulations. There will be a junior and a senior class, the former being on their first and the latter on their last two months of study. Every two months the seniors are graduated, the juniors promoted, and a new class started. Each class consists of 180 men, there being altogether about 360 men in the school. The present junior class will graduate in February, and is known...
...that men in the corps do their share to make the services as large and efficient as possible. A Liberty Loan campaign is an unfortunate coincidence, but not harmful to either. If a person has the money for the former he surely has enough also to contribute to the latter. Those who cannot buy a bond, however, ought surely to make some small sacrifice in order to gain the benefits of a capable Y. M. C. A. For the sake of Phillips Brooks House, and for the improvement of the S. A. T. C. contribute your share...
...close of the S. A. T. C. Camp held at Plattsburg from July 18 to September 16, 59 University men were commissioned as second lieutenants. The majority received commissions in infantry, but a certain percentage secured appointments as field artillery officers. These latter will attend a two months' artillery school at Camp Taylor, Louisville, Kentucky, and will from there be assigned to regular units. Of the officers commissioned in infantry the greater number have been stationed as instructors in the various colleges east of the Mississippi, while the remainder have been ordered to Camp Grant, Rockford, Illinois...
...forms of war relief work. His most distinguishing characteristic was his active interest in life, an interest indicated by his public offices in Newport and in Rhode Island, by his unrivalled collections of books, and by the long list of clubs with which he was connected. Prominent among the latter was the Crolier Club of New York, of which he was one of the earliest members and a constant and most generous benefactor. Hilast days were spent in editing a catalogue of his collections of angling bookplates which have been on exhibition at the Grolier Club...
...generals whose power rotated daily proved a failure, so has it been found impossible to conduct a training corps by means of a Tactical Staff with too much power and a central authority which was not strong enough. The abolition of the former and the strengthening of the latter by the appointments of such men as Major Lane to the position of Regimental Adjutant and of Lieutenant Morize to that of Assistant to the Commandant has assured the complete success of the Corps for the remainder of the year...