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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Fifth, imagine the value of executing maneuvers with all branches of the service present, instead of being merely "simulated" by flags and mysterious crosses on maps...
Lieutenant De Fourmestraux has been detailed by the French Government for work in connection with the Reserve Officers' Training Corps in this country, and is at present assigned to duty with the Princeton regiment. He has been a member of the 117th Infantry, from Lemans, a regiment which has distinguished itself many times during the war. While attending the lecture on "Airplane Photography," given by Lieutenant Morize at the New Lecture Hall on Wednesday afternoon, he remarked that he had fought over the ground portrayed by the aviation pictures during the battle of Le Roie...
...against a mass of forces which had never before been brought together in such military perfection. We expected that we would meet the ebb-tide of war in many disappointments and a few failures, but few of us possessed sufficient prophetic skill to see that a situation like the present would result. Our enthusiasm would not permit such dark foresight and our trust in our ability made us think lightly of any disadvantage...
...Monday, March 4, when practice will commences on the machines. At that time Coach Haines will outline the season's work for both the University and 1921 squads, and the men will be divided immediately into temporary crews for practice purposes. Manager A. F. Tribble '19 is at present carrying on negotiations with Yale and Princeton, and expects that satisfactory arrangements will soon be completed whereby the University crews, may race these colleges at some convenient date during the latter part of April or the month...
...before Washington was dead his contemporaries had entitled him "The Father of His Country." Yet Washington had not originated the idea of revolution against England. Its decisive battle, Saratoga, had been planned and fought by other generals, while Washington won, scarcely a single victory in seven years' campaigning. Although present at the Convention, he had played no decisive part in the formation of the Constitution. In spite of this, Washington well deserves the affectionate title bestowed on him. He possessed an extraordinary power of leadership through the moral qualities of integrity and devotion, rather than through intellectual genius. The people...