Word: missions
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...evening Major Azan, of the French Mission, assisted by Professor Merriman, delivered a lecture on the parts played by the various arms of the service and the 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...
Monday: 8-9, (Section Rooms) Military Topography; Text, Grieves; pp. 1-16. 9.15-5.30, Field Fortification under officers of the French Mission...
...Field Fortifications under officers of the French Mission...
Many English university men were killed in the war, but a greater thing than life--freedom--was saved; I look to the American college man now for decisive action," said the Honorable Arthur James Balfour, leader of the British Mission to this country, in a recent interview in the Yale News...
...Board of Overseers of the University, accompanied by Lord Cunliffe, the governor of the Bank of England, and one of the members of the English mission to this country, inspected the R. O. T. C. on Soldiers Field yesterday and complimented the Corps highly on its appearance and general bearing. The close order drills of the last two weeks have brought the first two battalions to a high point of efficiency in this department, and their work in parade is excellent. Having acquired this proficiency, these companies will devote the greater part of their time from now on to open...