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...Dartmouth regiment disbanded after a review of the two battalions on the campus by Captain P. S. Chase, of the 1st Corps Cadets, Boston, and Captain L. T. Keene, of the 150th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force, who have had charge of the military training and trench digging since Easter...
...beginning of the war Colonel Azan was at the headquarters of General Joffre. At his own request he was sent to the fighting line, as commander of a company of the 153d Regiment. He has also been Major of the 69th and attached to the headquarters of the Sixth Army. He has received the Croix de Guerre, is an officer of the Legion of Honor, has been "cited" three times and wounded three times...
...Office received yesterday from Yale University the names of 180 undergraduates of that institution who have enrolled in the Harvard Reserve Officers' Training Corps. The greater part of that number will report for duty on Tuesday, June 26, when they will be equally apportioned among the companies of the regiment. These new men will go into barracks with their respective battalions immediately on arrival...
Arrangements for the Yale men to enter the regiment after the enlistments formally closed several weeks ago was made at a recent conference between President Hadley, President Lowell and the University military authorities. The Elis have been training throughout the spring under Captain Danforth, U. S. Army, devoting the greater part of their time to artillery drill. Although here they will be unable to directly continue work in that branch of the service which they intend eventually to follow, they will receive the infantry training which is essential for an artillery man, and they will also have the benefit...
...regular training will put on them is bound to produce the kind of officer our country is looking for. Harvard has the French Officers, an almost perfect organization and a large body of serious, willing workers--three elements essential to the task which those who fostered the University regiment sought to do. It will take something decidedly more powerful than mere rumor to destroy all the good which has been brought about by the University corps...