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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Major Beith has had many experiences in the war and has watched its progress carefully since the beginning. In the summer of 1914 he enlisted in the Tenth Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, and spent six months of that fall and winter training at Aldershot, England. Soon afterwards, his regiment was sent to France, where they went into action among "the first hundred thousand...
After a brief description of personal experiences in London where he saw the first Zeppelin brought to earth "white hot and bigger than an ocean liner," and in the training camps of England and France, where men told him of "periods of thirty days they had spent soaked to the skin in rain and mud," Mr. Eddy went on to a description of the Y. M. C. A. hut work...
...advantages in such a change would be great. Many men have spent two and even three summers under military discipline; many who have only been in last summer's corps could easily command a company. The belief that there are only twelve men in college fit to command a large unit or to act as supply and top sergeants is unsound and untenable. The men now training here should be given every possible opportunity to exercise leadership. If some are fit for captaincies and the rank of the higher sergeant positions, there is no valid reason for preventing them...
...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 his ability and courage won him promotion...
Last year Captain Beith was granted a furlough by the British War Office, and spent the time lecturing in this country. During the winter he addressed audiences twice at the University, in Sanders Theatre and the Union, in addition to speeches delivered at Yale, and Princeton. At the time of the Allied Bazaar in Boston, he was in partial charge of the British military exhibits. Since last year, Ian Hay has once more visited the trenches, and comes to America with a wealth of new material for his speeches