Word: train
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...people of Boston gave a most enthusiastic and cordial welcome to the six French officers who arrived yesterday afternoon to assist in the training of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps of the University. From the time they left their train at the South Station until the entered the Harvard Club on Commonwealth avenue, the Frenchmen passed between two lines of cheering men and women; in places the crowds were so thick that it was an impossibility to move along the sidewalks...
...modern military science. But the regular army man, no matter how limited his practice may have been in that kind of work, is in the way to master it quickly. With the reserve officers the task will be harder, but they will all have had some sort of training before they begin to train others. There will be no question of getting the number of men required. Every intelligent citizen knows that universal obligation to military service has always been the rule in this country, as it must be in a democracy. But the training will require the utmost devotion...
...sending of an expeditionary force from the United States will undoubtedly have a great moral effect on the allied powers, and, personally, I think one will be very welcome, provided it is composed of trained men. Naturally an untrained force would have serious drawbacks, as there is the transportation of food and various other matters to be considered, which are of vital importance. It seems to me that it would be best to train the men in this country first, and then send them to the European front...
...before yesterday six French officers sailed from Bordeaux for Cambridge on a mission somewhat similar--to train the members of the R. O. T. C. in all phases of modern trench warfare. Military science has been revolutionized since the days of the Spanish-American war, our last war. Tactics count a great deal more, strategy much less. It is all important that our soldiers should know how to handle the new implements of warfare and understand their use. A platoon leader today has to do more than judge the range for his men and lead them over a ploughed field...
...Thousand," Ian Hay is best known in this country, although he is rapidly acquiring a reputation as a forceful speaker and lecturer. In this widely read work he graphically pictured the conditions in England at the outbreak of the war, and told of the length of time required to train a body of volunteers to the efficiency necessary in modern warfare. He has been granted a furlough by the British War Office to lecture in this country on England's part...