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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Home to Old America...
Year after year we find out from different sources that Harvard students are indifferent and sloppy in the things they do and the way they do them. Upon being censored we are wont to worry a few moments and then relapse into our old ways. Last night we were told the same story, but in a different way, and we hope, with a different effect. Colonel Applin openly and in good, clear English remarked that he was not impressed with our work, that we are half-hearted in our drill, and, in short, that the discipline, appearance and marching...
...does not. But what aroused us was the fact that each and every member of the R. O. T. C. has known right along that things were in a bad way. We have known it, we have discussed it, and then we have blundered along in the same old manner. Yet we have always kept this knowledge as a secret and until last night no one had found us out. Inspectors, both official and unofficial, have told us how pleased they have been with our work and in the privacy of our rooms we have laughed and said: "Well...
...HAVEN, CONN., MAY 3, 1918.--All members of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps at Yale, 17 years old or over who are not eligible for the Fourth Officers' Training Camp this spring because of age limitation, will be sent to Camp Jackson, Columbia, S. C., this summer for one month's training. The above cantonment, which possesses an artillery replacement depot, will afford excellent facilities for instructing the Yale Battery...
...less spectacular way their struggle around the ancient Flanders town symbolizes the British tradition in the war as the struggle for the Douamont and Vaux fortresses and Dead Man's Hill symbolizes the tradition of the French. It was at Ypres in November, 1914, that the British regulars, the "Old Contemptibles" of the gallant first expeditionary force, stemmed the German attack led by the crack regiments of the Prussian Guard and beat them back with terrific losses. It was at Ypres in April, 1915, that the First Canadian Division beat off the first gas attack and, in the words...