Word: major
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Major Ian Hay Beith of the British Army, author of "The First Hundred Thousand," will deliver an address before a meeting of law and graduate students of the University, to be held in the Phillips Brooks House tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock. The subject of the talk, as announced by Major Beith, will be "Carrying On," and his words will deal with conditions in the war at present and with his own experiences and impressions during his most recent visit to the trenches on the Western Front...
...Major Beith, or Ian Hay, as he is better known in this country, will speak on a subject connected with the war and based upon his recent visit to the battle front...
...Major Beith has had many experiences in the war and has watched its progress carefully since the beginning. In the summer of 1914 he enlisted in the Tenth Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, and spent six months of that fall and winter training at Aldershot, England. Soon afterwards, his regiment was sent to France, where they went into action among "the first hundred thousand...
...British War Office granted him a furlough last year, and since then; he has spent a large part of his time lecturing in this country. Twice last winter he addressed audiences in the University, once in Sanders Theatre and once in the Union. Major Beith has also delivered lectures before the student bodies at Yale and at Princeton...
...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...