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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...pursuance of an order from the War Department, Battery C, 1st Massachusetts Field Artillery, N. G., is recruiting new men to bring the enrolment up to war strength. Only a small number of vacancies remain. This battery was organized only a short time ago. It is officered by former members of Battery A, and contains, like that organization, many graduates and undergraduates of the University. It is expected that these batteries will be called out very soon. Information may be obtained from C. E. Mead 2L, Wadsworth 13, any afternoon. Men who intend to enlist are to report...
...order to prepare men in the short time available for the important duties of a commissioned officer, a program of intensive training has been prepared covering the necessary practical and theoretical instructions. For the present there will be eight hours of practical work and about two hours of theoretical work a day (Saturday afternoon off). It is to be understood, however, that these hours will be shortened or lengthened by the commanding officer when he finds that by so doing he can improve the course of instruction...
...Corps; but the members of the Corps must remember that the mere attainment of cadet rank should not be the main ambition of members of the Corps during this training. It will take the utmost effort, mental and physical, of every man to perfect himself in the short time available to be a leader of even a small body of troops...
...country, which sailed May 5, has also reached Paris, with eight Harvard drivers among its numbers. In all, 104 recruits for the ambulance service have arrived in the past few days, from Dartmouth, Princeton, Yale, Bowdoin, Williams, Beloit and the University. They will go directly to Paris for a short period of training, and then leave for actual service, where the men will be divided up into sections and distributed along the French front where their services are most needed in order to relieve men for the front...
Major deReviers gave a lecture to the Corps yesterday evening on the planning and construction of trenches. After a short introductory address by Major de Reviers, Mr. Frederic Schenk '09 delivered the translation of the lecture, assisted by comments and suggestions from the other Frenchmen. With the aid of diagrams the method of constructing the usual shelter trench was described, and instructions were given in the manner of erecting barbed wire entanglements and other obstructions. Bomb proofs, deep dugouts and other shelters were treated in detail, and the Corps was instructed in the art of their construction...