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...read some half dozen of Mr. Ellis' sketches we felt a little disappointed. They were not quite as refreshing or as interesting as we had anticipated. True, they were complete and evidently the result of much labor; Mr. Ellis' style, although at times approaching that of a first year primer, was straightforward and unaffecting. But as we read on it became more and more of an effort to continue...
...parts, and illustrate in a manner which is easily understood by the novice the correct way to shoot it. The charts have been made up by Lieutenant-Colonel George S. Simonds, U. S. A., who was for several years the Senior Tactical Officer at West Point, where his "Military Primer" is used as a text book. He is now adjutant of a Regular Army Division in France...
Whether or not this camp is recognized by the Government as providing sufficient training for officers only Secretary Baker in his wisdom knows. And there are some who presume that he is not exactly aware. But without that recognition, men who have learned here the primer lessons of trench fighting will find those lessons not without their value when they undertake battle in France. It is within conceivability that some men now undertaking intensive training at other, more governmentally favored camps, may have some of their lessons to unlearn before they begin to learn...
...days of high tariff and low. If Mr. Lazarus seriously believes that the "sole visible and apparently eternal" question of a high tariff is the only one with which the community is concerned in the present campaign, then it were far better for him to take up his political primer, his newspaper or his train of common sense, and learn what confronts the country. Let us hope that there are few men of the requisite age and the supposed discretion for voting, either college trained or not, either Democrats or Republicans, who believe that the sole issue is that...
...following books have already been installed: "Manual of Military Training," by Jas. A. Moss; "Self-Helps for the Citizen Soldier," by Jas. A. Moss and M. B. Stewart; "Fundamentals of Military Service," by Lincoln C. Andrews; "Technique of Modern Tactics," by P. S. Bond and M. J. McDonough; "Military Primer," by George S. Simonds and Francis C. Marshall; "Studies in Minor Tactics, 1915," "Military Sketching and Map Reading," by Loren C. Grieves. "Field Service Regulations, U. S. Army." Paymaster D. G. McRitchie, U. S. N., has presented two copies of "The Bluejackets' Manual, U. S. N., 1915," which have been...