Word: missions
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...following lectures will be given by the Officers of the French Military Mission, attached to the Department of Military Science and Tactics, Harvard University, during the week...
President Butler welcomed the English mission at 118th street. Mr. Balfour found it impossible to attend, and Clive Bayley, British consul-general, was his proxy...
Preparations for the University's reception of General Joffre, M. Viviani, and the other members of the French mission tomorrow afternoon are nearing completion, and every effort is being made to make their short visit to Cambridge a memorable one. In addition to exercises in Sanders Theatre and Memorial Hall, the French envoys will review the R. O. T. C. of the University in the Stadium, where an impressive ceremony will be held. The two first battalions, augmented by a hundred men from the four provisional companies, will participate in the parade...
...Eubank of Huchow, China, will speak at an open meeting of the Student Volunteer Band, in Phillips Brooks House this evening at 7.30 o'clock. The address will concern mission work in foreign lands, and members of societies of like nature in other colleges will be present. All members of the University who are interested in mission work, whether they are student volunteers or not are invited to attend...
...before yesterday six French officers sailed from Bordeaux for Cambridge on a mission somewhat similar--to train the members of the R. O. T. C. in all phases of modern trench warfare. Military science has been revolutionized since the days of the Spanish-American war, our last war. Tactics count a great deal more, strategy much less. It is all important that our soldiers should know how to handle the new implements of warfare and understand their use. A platoon leader today has to do more than judge the range for his men and lead them over a ploughed field...