Word: thousands
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...book, "The First Hundred Thousand," written under the pen name of Ian Hay, is well known to everyone. It describes the experiences encountered by a volunteer at Aldershot and later somewhere in France. The meeting is open to all members of the University...
...Over a thousand men responded to the call of preparedness last year when the country was in no immediate danger. The Harvard Regiment placed the University in the forefront of the believers in an adequate defense for this country. Now in a time of national peril the numbers of the Harvard Regiment ought to be doubled, and a training unit of two thousand students should once again prove that Harvard recognizes her duty to the country and offers her services to the last man for the protection of the nation. The enrolment in this officers' unit will show that there...
Captain Ian Hay Beith, British soldier and writer, better known under the penname of Ian Hay as the author of "The First Hundred Thousand," will lecture in the Living Room of the Union on Monday, February 12. In accordance with the purpose of his visit to this country as lecturing representative of England in the present war, Captain Beith will speak on some phase of the struggle from Great Britain's point of view, drawing from his wide experience in the Allied ranks as a member of the Tenth Argyl and Sutherland and Highlanders...
...enrolment immediately after the outbreak of the war, Captain Beith served with such ability and courage in the first detachment of England's volunteer army during the spring of 1915 that he was given a commission and soon attained his present rank of captain. In "The First Hundred Thousand," Captain Beith relates some of the most interesting of his personal experiences both in the training camp at Aldershot, when he was a member of the Sutherland Highlanders and at the front during the opening months of the war. His book is unique among the war publications in having been characterized...
...moved to protest against compulsory training because we have seen what compulsion has done in so democratic a country as England. We note the fate of the several thousand men whose consciences will not allow them to become part of a military machine whose purpose is the destruction of life. We recognize that conscription laws usually provide for conscientious scruples, but unfortunately the men who are appointed to judge the validity of these scruples are either military men or civilians of a military mind. They are unable to comprehend the workings of a conscience different from their own. These British...