Word: portions
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...reasonable supposition that should by merit the hundred and thirty or so men from the University be so selected, condemnation of the favoritism shown will rise to damnation. And it is a further reasonable supposition that should those officers, having undertaken with their men the defense of a portion of the battle line, by some singular feat of courage or skill force the retirement of the foe which opposes them, the Germans will then be accused of having conspired with the Government, the War Department and fate to advance the honor of these hundred and thirty men, over more deserving...
...Sunday morning the men were divided into three groups, and several hours were spent in topographical sketching, including the making of road maps as well as place and position sketches. A portion of the time was devoted to signalling. Bad weather necessitated a return early Sunday afternoon...
...first and second line trenches, communication trenches and boyeaux, with bombproofs and dug-outs at intervals along the line. The plans also include machine gun positions and bombing posts. Two companies each day will devote their entire time to the study of these positions and the construction of a portion of the trenches, under the guidance and constant instruction of the officers...
Approximately 350 members of the University have been accepted by the Government for the Officers' Training Camp to start at Plattsburg next Monday. A certain portion of this number have received orders to report at the camp on Saturday, May 12; those men of this class who are now in the R. O. T. C. of the University will be discharged from the Corps not later than tomorrow evening. The remainder of the men accepted will report at the camp on Monday, May 14, and those of this number in the R. O. T. C. here will be discharged after...
Sanborn reports that work has been done at Gizeh, Memphis and Dendereh. At Gizeh a portion of the extensive necropolis belonging to the period of the Old Empire was cleared. Besides a number of stelae, the most interesting discovery was a vauit built of interlocking bricks; this is a unique example of such construction at so early a date. At Memphis the expedition is still engaged in uncovering a great complex of buildings dating from the reign of Merenptah (ca. 1225-1215 B. C.), the son of Rameses the Great. Thus far nearly the whole of a large festival temple...