Word: trenches
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Lecture on Trench Construction...
Military drill at Princeton is progressing rapidly. Among the several new features added to the daily routine during the past week are bayonet instruction, problems in estimating distances, and trench work. The last mentioned feature, trench construction, has been taken up only by those men enlisted for intensive training. The work has consisted mainly of constructing combination trenches, which do not present so many difficulties in building. It was also found necessary to construct trenches of this type because the dampness of the ground where the work is being carried on did not allow any depth for digging. Sand...
...subjects and dates of which will be announced later, the officers will commence the work of practical instruction this week. On each day two companies will devote the entire time of drill to the study of field fortifications and will work as nearly as possible under the conditions of trench warfare...
Major deReviers gave a lecture to the Corps yesterday evening on the planning and construction of trenches. After a short introductory address by Major de Reviers, Mr. Frederic Schenk '09 delivered the translation of the lecture, assisted by comments and suggestions from the other Frenchmen. With the aid of diagrams the method of constructing the usual shelter trench was described, and instructions were given in the manner of erecting barbed wire entanglements and other obstructions. Bomb proofs, deep dugouts and other shelters were treated in detail, and the Corps was instructed in the art of their construction...
Captain Bowen delivered his first lecture on "The Theory of Target Practice" to the provisional companies last night. Tonight's lecture, for the entire corps will be by Major J. deReviers de Mauny on the subject of "Trench Warfare...