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These lectures will be given regularly every Wednesday evening at 8.15 by members of the faculty who are in touch with special and general aspects of war work and conditions in the warring countries, as well as by alumni and men outside the University who are qualified to speak on such subjects. They are open to all members of the University but not to the public...
Captain Beith, or Ian Hay, as he is known among authors, will speak upon some subject connected with the war and with his recent visit to the trenches. He is well qualified to speak in this regard, having served himself under Kitchener. He enlisted soon after the beginning of the war, and spent six months of the fall and winter of 1914-15 in training at Aldershot, England, in the Tenth Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders. After training for six months, the regiment was sent to France and went into action among the "first hundred thousand." While at the front...
These lectures will be given in part by members of the faculty who are in touch with special and general aspects of war work and conditions in European countries, and in part by alumni and men outside the University who can speak with authority on such subjects. The talks will be given weekly, ordinarily on Wednesday evenings, and will be open to members of the University only, not to the public...
Sergeant Arthur Guy Empey of the British Army, author of the famous war book "Over the Top," will speak at Symphony Hall, Boston, tonight at 8.15. He will describe his experiences in french warfare, including bomb-throwing and machine gun and bayonet fighting...
Perhaps the most popular of war books is "Over the Top." Last summer the R. O. T. C. found it cursory reading of a delightful kind. The author will speak in Symphony Hall this evening, so that members of the Corps who do not go will be haunted for days by, "You ought to have been there." Notebooks should be left at home, for at this lecture seriousness is censored. "The Role of the High Command" is not so much the subject as "The Role of Thomas Atkins...