Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...situation in the colleges of England before the war broke out was somewhat different from that in your American universities and colleges today," said Captain Ian Hay Beith, in an interview with a CRIMSON reporter just before his lecture in Tremont Temple yesterday afternoon. "You see, we had had our Officers' Training Corps as a regular institution in the life of the British student, which prepared the undergraduates for ordinary military service, the work of the corps being extremely popular and purely voluntary. When a man in training had passed an examination proving his ability as a potential officer...
...before yesterday six French officers sailed from Bordeaux for Cambridge on a mission somewhat similar--to train the members of the R. O. T. C. in all phases of modern trench warfare. Military science has been revolutionized since the days of the Spanish-American war, our last war. Tactics count a great deal more, strategy much less. It is all important that our soldiers should know how to handle the new implements of warfare and understand their use. A platoon leader today has to do more than judge the range for his men and lead them over a ploughed field...
...press this week and the remaining sections will follow as soon as they are completed. The cancellation of athletics on account of the war has made it possible to finish the work on this section much earlier than was expected and will also make the Red Book somewhat smaller than usual. The pictures of the different teams were taken before the men left for the Naval Reserve so that all their members were included. The photographic department has all but about 15 of the individual pictures and the remaining ones will probably be taken before the spring recess...
...American adaptation by Edward Paulton of a spirited Viennese operetta, clearly succeeded in delighting its early audience at the Majestic. Yet to those who remember the notable music of "The Chocolate Soldier" the latest work from the pen of Oscar Straus--with additional numbers by Sigmund Romberg--is somewhat of a disappointment. Not that the music is dull and wholly uninteresting; on the contrary, much of it is quite agreeable. There are some alluring waltz measures, some elaborate ensembles, and a vigorous and stirring march. But the orchestral score is heavy and far from inspired, and the solo pages...
...complete and final arrangements have as yet been given out by the War Department in regard to the appointment, on a large scale, of officers in the Reserve Corps. It is probable, however, that a plan somewhat similar to that in vogue in England may be adopted. There all aspirants for commissions are given, for a period of three months, the same drill that is given to the enlisted recruits, and then those who demonstrate that they will make good officers, are sent to a cadet school for six or seven months of intensive training. Men who have completed...