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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...University R. O. T. C. was begun yesterday, when Companies C and D, under the leadership of the French officers, spent the day near Fresh Pond, engaged in the outlining and construction of trenches. The Frenchmen have laid out a system of defences which include first and second line trenches, communication trenches and boyeaux, with bombproofs and dug-outs at intervals along the line. The plans also include machine gun positions and bombing posts. Two companies each day will devote their entire time to the study of these positions and the construction of a portion of the trenches, under...
...been computed on presumably careful figures that the average officer of the fighting line in the war lasts but twenty-three days before he is killed or wounded...
...game of war has started on Soldiers Field for fair. The work of drill, squads-right and platoons-left-front-into-line-double-time-march has taken second place to the more exacting sport of rushing imaginary trenches under an imaginary "hail of death" (as the war correspondents always describe it). The cinder-heaps are hills, the grass is forests, the fence is a wall of China, and the whole land is "terrain." A man may be a squad, a squad a company, and a company a regiment. In such Lilliputian measure do we play at war, seeing how armies...
Thirty members of the University are scheduled to sail from New York today for France, to serve in the American Ambulance Field Service. These men will go to Bordeaux on the steamer Chicago of the French Line, the same ship that carried the contingent from the University last February. The sailing of the boat has been held over since last Saturday. Beside the men from the University, the Chicago will take two units from the University of California, one from the University of Illinois, one from the Washington University of St. Louis, and 80 other men from colleges and universities...
Following up the discussion of the front line trenches, the communication and second and support lines were described, and the necessity for their strong fortification emphasized. Plans of a typical section of front were shown, and the various salients, machine gun and automatic rifle positions, and the relative position of the three lines of trenches with their necessary defences were described in detail...