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...Trench Warfare—Major de Riviers de Mauny...
Such universal love of the land must call for our commendation. The desire to live for one's nation in a truck-garden rather than dying for the same cause in a trench shows a proper philosophic regard for the value of human life. One can fight with potatoes as well as bombs and reap the harvest wheat instead of an unkind enemy...
Many hold a mistaken opinion of the engineers. It is not perpetual trench-digging. It is the most interesting and varied work in the army...
...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...
...originators of them. Tuesday afternoon is a date that ought to be saved by every member of the R. O. T. C. At that time, in Tremont Temple, Captain Beith will speak on "Modern Battlefield Tactics." Since the achievements of Captain Beith and his first-hand knowledge of trench customs are well known by Harvard men, there should be a general eagerness to hear his lecture. Seldom is it our privilege to have the intricacies of present day tactics explained to us "by one who knows...