Word: militiaization
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...great part it has played in all the campaigns of the present European war. The moving pictures will show how the mechanism of the standard machine gun works, and the manoeuvres of an automatic machine rifle company as carried on by the United States Army and the state militias. The meeting also aims to stimulate interest in the cause of preparedness in this country by explaining one kind of military work, and by showing how members of the University who are interested may further it by becoming affiliated with some branch of the organized militia in this state...
...Blake '02, who was formerly captain of the cavalry in Massachusetts, told of his experiences in camp and explained the value of training in militia. "It is the absolute duty of every man to go into the summer camps," he said, "and capable and intelligent men, especially, are needed...
...should not be increased in size. I also think that the national government should secure a large stock of the best possible artillery of all sorts,--again the best in the light of this war's experience. I hope, too, that the several states will improve their present volunteer militia system. About what I understand to be General Leonard Wood's recommendation, that the term of enlistment in the regular army should be shortened to one year, or even six months, so that a large number of men would graduate from the army every year, to be held...
...Switzerland during the present war? That country by means of a military system, which many of our experts advise for adoption here, has compelled both France and Germany to respect her neutrality for the past eight months. To see what her condition might be today without a well-organized militia, one only has to look at Belgium. Geographical conditions have aided her, but those alone would not have stopped a stronger power from invading during the past months...
...University will be represented by a 440-yard relay team in the annual athletic meet of the second division naval militia in the Connecticut State Armory, Hartford, tonight at 8 o'clock. Captain F. W. Capper '15, W. J. Bingham '16, W. Willcox '17 and T. R. Pennypacker '16 will race the Pennsylvania, University quartet, each man running a quarter-mile. J. E. Meredith will be the anchor man for Pennsylvania. It was also planned to run a 4-mile relay race against Dartmouth, but this has been cancelled, and the quarter-mile relay is the only event in which...