Word: usefulness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Through the courtesy of the Marine Section, the company has been able to borrow four U. S. army rifles, model 1917, and parry sticks for bayonet work are now on hand. As soon as a sufficient quantity of the Russian rifles arrive, the regular S. A. T. C. will use them exclusively, thereby allowing the Junior Company to use the "Krags." This week's schedule includes extended order drill for the company as a unit, and next week the semaphore code will be taken...
...officers training camp at Fort Monroe, Va., is also open to applicants who have an acceptable knowledge of algebra, plain geometry, trigonometry, and the use of logarithims, and offers an exceptional opportunity at the present time for those qualified to take the course. Men above 31, who were negistrants of September 12, 1918, are particularly desirable...
...canteen and hostess house will be in charge of Mrs. C. B. Gulick, who has so effciently managed the Radio Canteen since its establishment. For the purpose of a canteen the large room which was formerly utilized by the Speakers' Club as a restaurant will be used. A smailer room has been set aside for the use of a hostess; where men can come to arrange for the numerous social appointments which are made for the military and naval men on their free evenings. The former lounging room of the club will be turned into a reading and writing room...
Other additions will be established as the need for them develops. It is now expected that the Mending Bureau will find opportunity for activity in connection with the house. The men are invited to make use of this form of service...
...lined with dumps of material--shells, grenades, rifle and machine gun amunition, discarded rifles, helmets--everything, in fact, one sees along those roads, though of course it is being rapidly collected by the salvage departments, sorted and sent back to salvage depot for repair, renovation, and reissue--for a use is found for almost everything, no matter how badly smashed and broken...