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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...receive instruction with a view to becoming assistant bayonet instructors in their companies will report to M. Leslaby in the Fencing Room in Hemenway Gymnasium today at 12 o'clock. Four assistants, preferably men with previous experience, will be chosen to help in the bayonet drills which are to start next week. In addition to the regular U. S. Army drill, instruction will be given in the method of handling the weapon at present employed by the French...
There will be a reception for the six French officers tomorrow evening, given by President and Mrs. Lowell, to which members of the Faculty and their wives will be invited. The Frenchmen will start active work with the Training, Corps next Monday morning...
...Training Corps today begins the final test. Perhaps we have too tediously emphasized the need for preparation, but we cannot do it too often. For the examinations which start this morning are doubly important. In the first place, they have all the value and seriousness of finals in ordinary times. In the second, they are the last obstacles which stand in the way of a lieutenant's commission. Thus they are a test of academic as well as military fitness, for the past as well as for the future...
...change, for an antidote. Professor Copeland will read Sheridan's "Critic" tonight at Brattle Hall, and everyone knows that this will mean an evening of delightful enjoyment and complete relaxation. Doubtless the majority of students have talked war and nothing but war during the entire vacation. Drills start today and also an endless discussion of each individual's plans to become a captain in two weeks. Break the monotonous strain of militaristic thoughts, and try "Copey" as an inspiring antidote...
...airplanes and of Zeppelins and of asphyxiating gas has given extraordinary emphasis to the importance of the weather factor in war. It is clear that the Germans had, from the start, a very efficient military field weather service, whose headquarters, for the western front, are in Belgium. Their meteorological observers have been making forecasts of the most favorable conditions for Zeppelin raids and for gas attacks...