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...Coast Artillery Corps is supplying all the Army artillery for the mobile army in France, which is the large reserve artillery of medium and large calibre attached to Army organization. In addition to this artillery, it furnishes all anti-aircraft batteries and trench mortars...
...powerful Labor Party would be bound to make. Conscription is always odious, but it is the only fair method of selection and it would strike rich as well as poor. The man who is drafted for labor has very little ground for objection, compared to the person chosen for trench service and a labor draft is the one and only way to put the workmen, manual and intellectual, in the places where they would do the most good. In the higher intellectual classes a type of conscription is already in force, only this selection is done under the guise...
...retired, as its superintendent. General Pew showed a rather unusual ability to attract to his aid officers, including especially foreign officers, capable of giving competently modernized instruction, and it may be hoped that he will succeed in this effort again. Whether it be in the famous trenches at Fresh Pond, or in the trench system and wide manoeuvre fields available at Williamstown, here are opportunities in the coming summer which no college man should miss if he yet has hope of performing an officer's service. Boston Transcript
Major Strong is devoting attention primarily to trench fever, which puts the greatest number of men temporarily out of service. Co-operating in these investigations are Dr. Walter Bradford Cannon '96 and Dr. Harvey Cushing, M.D. '95, both of whom are on the Faculty of the Medical School...
...Department, including such books as the "Engineers' Field Manual," "Rules of Land Warfare," and "Landscape Sketching." A number of detailed maps of the western front are now on exhibition. There are also plans of the latest bombs and hand grenades and a collection of photographs illustrating trench life and warfare. F. W. C. Hersey '99, of the Department of English, is in charge of the library...