Word: periodicals
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Plans for the establishment of a "field university" in Europe immediately after the actual fighting ceases have just been announced by Professor Erskine of Columbia University. It will be for the purpose of educating American soldiers overseas during the period of demobilization. The enterprise came into being due to a survey of the educational needs of American soldiers abroad by A. S. Stokes, secretary of Yale University. The project will be financed by the Y. M. C. A., and controlled by it under the supervision of the military authorities...
Recently Major Williams made a two and one-half years' tour of the Philippine Islands. Upon his second return to the United States he was stationed at Fort Adams, Rhode Island. After a very short period there he was detailed to the Harvard S. A. T. C. Unit for the purpose of examining candidates for the artillery service and to act as assistant to his father, Colonel Williams...
Over 15,000 soldiers have registered at the headquarters of the American University Union in Paris. The greater part of those registering have been officers. The union has taken over a hotel for the period of the war and it is the meeting place for college men. Many of the colleges have an overseas club-room there. About 125 men are taken care of nightly and there is always a big demand for quarters...
...worn only from the first formation at seven in the morning until a time not later than ten in the morning. The daily program begins with a formation at seven o'clock, from which the men march to breakfast at the Union, and is followed by a drill period from 8 to 9.20, except on Saturdays, when section meetings are held during the hour beginning at 8.20. The company is organized with a system of demerits, tardiness counting as one demerit, absence as three, insubordinate conduct as five, and other unmeritorious conduct as much as the Commanding Officer sees...
...service the unmixed happiness or lasting discontent of his later years whether or not he is conscious of having done his utmost to serve his country in a time of crisis. But we must remember that efficient service in any field can be rendered only after a period, oftentimes reaching into years, of laborious and intensive preparation. For many of us that period is now becoming a matter of weeks; it concerns us all the more, therefore, to take care that all of the work which we do shall be our best and nothing else. The spectacular deeds...