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Criticism of Yale's war policy particularly as that policy affects athletics, has led Captain W. S. Overton, U. S. A., Professor of Military Science at Yale to write a letter in its defence to the New York...
...different military organizations have gotten well under way in their year's war work. At Yale, naval and military courses have for some time been in full swing, the former under Admiral C. M. Chester, U. S. N., retired, and the latter in the hands of Captain W. S. Overton, U. S. A., retired, assisted by Captain A. Dupont of the French Military Mission, and by Captain Bland and Lieutenant Massey of the Canadian Army. Both courses will extend for three years and count as nine hours' work for a degree, and both will lead to commissions as second lieutenant...
Captain W. S. Overton, who for a short time last summer acted as commandant of the R. O. T. C., was in Cambridge yesterday. He is now in charge of the Yale R. O. T. C. and has been a strong advo- cate of the continuance of athletics as a supplement to military training. Captain Dupont, one of the six original members of the French Military Mission, is working in conjunction with him in New Haven...
Captain Dupont will thus assist Captain Overton, U. S. A., retired, who also was stationed with the University corps this summer and is now professor of military science and tactics at New Haven on appointment by the War Department. Besides Captain Dupont two captains of Canadian Field Artillery have been detailed to aid in the training of the Yale Battery. The guns for this training have been promised by the French government, and it is reported that they have already arrived in this country. They were secured through the efforts of M. Tardieu and Colonel Claudon...
With Captain Overton, Farwell, Treadway, Braden, Davis and Nichols and a wealth of new material coming up from the 1919 squad, Yale has the best balanced and most formidable track team in a dozen years. In fact, the strength of the team is such that the Elis expect to defeat both Princeton and the University, and hope to win the intercollegiates. Overton and Farwell, the all-round stars of the team, are in record breaking form in the distance runs and the hurdles. In the last two big indoor meets, Overton has broken world's records in the mile...