Word: retreated
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...booze, news of the generous distribution of gold and silver medals among the two unhappy teams is astonishing to say the least, besides giving color to the rumors that Harvard is fast becoming Prussianized. We are told that the Germans were accustomed to stimulate their troops after a "strategic retreat" by a wholesale dispensation of Iron Crosses. If the Debating Council is pursuing this plan, then we heartily approve, for the worthy debaters unquestionably deserve something...
...Causes of the British Retreat on the Somme in 1918" will be the subject of a lecture by Lieutenant Colonel Hugh Cabot '94, M.D. 98, which he will give in Peabody Hall, Phillips Brooks House at 8 o'clock this evening under the auspices of the St. Paul's Society. Lieutenant-Colonel Cabot was, until his recent return from France, commanding officer of the Harvard Surgical Unit stationed on the western front with the British Army from 1915 to the time the armistice was signed...
Lieutenant Colonel Hugh Cabot '94, M.D. '98, for the last year commander of the Harvard Medical Unit stationed on the western front with the British Army, will speak on "The Causes of the British Retreat on the Somme in 1918" in Peabody Hall, Phillips Brooks House, at 8 o'clock tomorrow evening. The meeting is open to all members of the. University and is given under the auspices of the Phillips Brooks House Association...
...small regular army of about seven divisions known as the "contemptible." Two hundred and fifty students from Cambridge joined this army as despatch riders, not waiting to receive commissions. The service these men rendered was huge. They were the only motorcycle despatch carriers and accomplished wonders in the retreat from Mons, riding straight into the unknown German gas until they dropped from their machines. These men were exceptions, however, for the volunteer army of Kitchener was officered entirely from University men and public school boys from Eton, Rugby, Winchester and similar institutions. Barely a month was devoted to training these...
Lieutenant-Colonel Hugh Cabot '94, commanding officer of the University Surgical Unit in France, will speak under the auspices of the St. Paul's Society in Peabody Hall, Phillips Brooks House, on March 5 at 7.45. The subject of the lecture is "The Causes for the British Retreat on the Somme in the Spring of 1918". All members of the University are invited to attend...