Word: manners
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...importance of co-operation between the different branches. Infantry, artillery, engineering, cavalry, and the aviation corps were treated successively, emphasis being laid on the first two as being the most fundamental departments of the service. The part which each division fills in the entire system, and the manner in which they work together, were carefully explained. Until further notice lectures by the French officers will be given on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday of each week...
...people has, by some prodding and a great deal of talking, been aroused to a fair and growing knowledge of the part it must accomplish in this agonizing war. Our young men notably have shown themselves eager for service in a manner no less honorable and courageous than in the past. We are preparing to send great armies to Europe of a half-million men of five million men if we need to do so. That is in accord with our strength. Yet five hundred thousand men alone will not turn the tide of war to victory. We need arms...
Certain it is that the duty of those who believe the war is wrong is fearlessly and publicly to say so, after the manner of that enlightened group in England which, with David Lloyd-George as its spokesman, rendered such loyal service to freedom and fair-play and all that England aspires to be by publicly denouncing the Boer War and boldly refusing to countenance or further it in any way. Such a group of men, if we had it, and if they were sincere, would be of tremendous moral value in our community today. In those who believe, however...
...difficult to see how the author, brought up in the critical and liberal atmosphere of Harvard, could have chosen, through such apparent implications, to indict the Chinese as a people in this insolent and irresponsible manner. That the army of China, with its obsolete arms and want of training, proved to be inefficient and inferior to its opponents in her recent wars is a fact, but to attribute this without any ground to the reason that the Chinese are "cowardly" can not but be construed as an act of wanton insult of national character. If the Chinese are given...
...After a short introductory address by Major de Reviers, Mr. Frederic Schenk '09 delivered the translation of the lecture, assisted by comments and suggestions from the other Frenchmen. With the aid of diagrams the method of constructing the usual shelter trench was described, and instructions were given in the manner of erecting barbed wire entanglements and other obstructions. Bomb proofs, deep dugouts and other shelters were treated in detail, and the Corps was instructed in the art of their construction...