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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...have been divided up into two battalions of three companies each. Six hours of drill a week will be held, divided into three periods of two hours each. Lectures are to be given on subjects allied to Military Science, and instruction in bomb construction and throwing, and in the use of machine guns will occupy a portion of the time. The system of trenches constructed last summer by the Dartmouth men, will be used again with slight additions and improvements...
targets. An elaborate course in bayonet work was also inaugurated as the officers had received little or no instruction in the manual now in general use on the Western Front. A system of trenches patterned after those at Fresh Pond was outlined and trench duties including the mechanism of relief's were explained fully. Much time was present, too, in the organization of French platoons and in drilling them in the various formations used in the regimental exercises at Barre...
...Military training means training a man to use that part of him which lies above his eyebrows: he must be more than a mere mark for the enemy to shoot at; he must be able to lead movements against the enemy," said President Lowell at the military mass meeting in the New Lecture Hall last night. "Why is it worth while to men here? It is worth while to the men with previous experience because they want to make sure of as high commissions as they canget from future federal training camps to the third of which men who were...
...section meetings but there will be at least two lectures a week on advanced subjects, assuming a knowledge of American military organization and tactics but more particularly of the similar French organizations as taught by the French Mission during the summer. The course will be progressive in that use will be made of all previous information the students may possess. The lectures will also come in the evening, the 1.30 hour being discontinued as in the elementary course. The practical work for the advanced students will be three hours a week. For two of these hours the two courses will...
...first use of modern book-stacks was in this library...