Word: terrain
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...more and more a matter of course. Furthermore, unlike other offensives, this is prominent for the ground gained. Communications with Zeebrugee and Ostend are seriously threatened. The fact that these submarine bases are endangered means that the British are gaining something more than mere proof of their superiority. All terrain captured heretofore has had comparatively local importance, but this new steady drive may surprise the most pessimistic of us as well as the Germans. Further progress on the same line is a check on the submarine campaign and a step toward victory...
...Pound was explained to the men, and the natural disposition of the forces therein was pointed out. During the second week relief problems in the trenches were executed; the study of attacking formations continued in the trenches were executed; the study of attacking formation continued in the more varied terrain around Fresh Pond and work at Waverly in the positions made by the R. O. T. C. began. These exercises became more numerous during the final fortnight, and were varied by new ground and night manoeuvers...
...improvement in the organization and discipline of the companies as well as to the character of the terrain around Barre, these exercises were made the most instructive feature of the course. Map sketching continued under Professor J. E. Wolfe and his assistants, and Captain Leslaby, the University fencing coach, was in charge of the bayonet work...
Through the kindness of the Oakley Country Club the R. O. T. C. has secured the privilege of using the extensive club grounds and parts of the surrounding country for map sketching. Both the location and the terrain of this section of the country are especially suited to the purpose, and the two companies each day which are doing map sketching, are making profitable us of these grounds...
...time-march has taken second place to the more exacting sport of rushing imaginary trenches under an imaginary "hail of death" (as the war correspondents always describe it). The cinder-heaps are hills, the grass is forests, the fence is a wall of China, and the whole land is "terrain." A man may be a squad, a squad a company, and a company a regiment. In such Lilliputian measure do we play at war, seeing how armies move and battles...