Word: trenches
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Coast Artillery Corps includes railway artillery, army artillery, anti-aircraft artillery, and part of the trench artillery, in addition to the strictly coast defense guns. The course provides for two hours of physical training per week, which may take the form of athletics. A minimum of three hours a week of theoretical instruction is required, including plane and solid geometry, place and spherical trigonometry, college algebra, use of slide rule, physics, (electricity, optics, statical and dynamic mechanics, physical laboratory work, theory of errors, and thermo-dynamics), American history, English, plane surveying, gunnery, and two hours per week of military instruction...
...expected that a battery of eight inch howitzers of the latest model and of the type used by the American heavy artillery regiments on the western front will be installed. Trench mortars, anti-aircraft guns, and a complete set of range-finding instruments and plotting boards such as those used by the Coast Artillery Corps will also be included in the equipment. The Infantry Reserve Officers' Training Corps which is in operation at present will be enlarged next all by the addition of a machine gun company...
...most interesting events concerned with the lighter side of trench warfare which I experienced during my year in France, spend most of the time at the front was the first Harvard class banquet ever held under fire," said Major Carroll J. Swan '01, of the 101st Engineers, in an interview with a CRIMSON reporter. "In my own regiment three out of the six company commanders were in the class of 1901 at the University, Captain Edwin Bruch, Captain Charles Roach, and myself. On a section of the Toul front we met two other clasments, one a Colonel of Artillery...
...course of time, but the tests furnished objective data at once upon which to base an opinion. They also obviated the necessity of judging a man by his face and other marks of intelligence. In the various officers' groups, the engineers ranked first, being followed by field artillery, trench mortar, personnel adjutants, and ambulance company officers...
...headed little Irishman of the type which seems to have almost disappeared in these days of Teuton plots and Sinn Feiners. Mr. Leon Gordon, formerly of the Henry Jewett Players, took the part of Bert, the Don Juan of the trio, the man "with a girl in every trench." His interpretation of the part was faultless but he suffered from being somewhat too immaculate for a Tommy at the front...