Word: turned
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Reserve Officers were ordered to Cambridge on August 19 for a three weeks course of training under the officers of the French Mission. This period was later extended to September 15, at which time the officers received orders to report at their respective divisional cantonments where they will in turn act as instructors in French tactics...
...Reviers de Mauny, Captain Adolph Dupont, Lieutenant Andre Morize, and Lieutenant Jean Giraudoux--took the regiment in hand and began the instruction in French open order formations and tactics of defense and attack. There was begun the valuable series of lectures which extended through the course, treating in turn such various important phases of modern warfare as the grenade, the automatic rifle, the machine gun, field fortifications, trench routine, principles of infantry in modern combat, and the role of the high command...
...been primarily the soldiers training, save as all education trains for service and sacrifice. It has been a liberal broadening of mind which should make Harvard men leaders of peace, of science, and culture. That Harvard men should, when confronted with the cold fact of war be able to turn from those careers which they had planned to the new and urgent service is a tribute to the general abilities which they have attained. It is not a tribute to any unusually fierce or bellicose qualities of mind...
Guards and sentinels are kept posted every hour of the day and night, the companies taking turn in furnishing the guard detail. Details from the companies also act as table waiters for their own companies and for the officers' mess...
...subscription for the Colt gun which was secured through the energy of a few members of Company A is going ahead rapidly. The collection in the squads is to be made by the corporals, who will turn over the amount which their men wish to contribute to the first sergeants of their companies, who will in turn, turn the money over to the committee in charge. Yesterday Company F pledged $150 to help...