Word: war
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Captain Ian Hay Beith, the British soldier who fought in France early in the war, and recorded his impressions and experiences in "The First Hundred Thousand," will deliver an address before a meeting of law and graduate students at the University on Sunday, November 11. The meeting, which will be held in Phillips Brooks House at 8 o'clock, is the second of a series under the auspices of the Law School Society and the Graduate School Society, and will be open exclusively to men in the law and graduate schools...
Captain Beith, or Ian Hay, as he is known among authors, will speak upon some subject connected with the war and with his recent visit to the trenches. He is well qualified to speak in this regard, having served himself under Kitchener. He enlisted soon after the beginning of the war, and spent six months of the fall and winter of 1914-15 in training at Aldershot, England, in the Tenth Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders. After training for six months, the regiment was sent to France and went into action among the "first hundred thousand." While at the front...
...expect Yale to lose at football but if the other universities would take up war work as seriously as Yale. I believe that thousands of American lives that will be lost in battle would be saved. The United States has men in plenty but lacks trained leaders...
...seaman navigates his vessel in all sorts of weather, but skill in local weather forecasting, and a practical knowledge of the laws of storms, are invaluable in making possible a speedier, safer and more successful voyage. Similarly, the navigator of the air, though war service often involves flying under atmospheric conditions far from favorable, inevitably finds, sooner or later, that the more he knows about the air which he is navigating, the better equipped he is as a fighter, as a photographer, or on reconnaissance work. At critical times, meteorological knowledge has time and again proved its practical value...
...Meteorology is but a small part of the varied and highly complex information which is necessary in his exacting and dangerous occupation. Theories should be omitted altogether, and explanations, except of certain essential facts, are unnecessary. The keynote of the meteorologist's contribution to the training for flying in war is the desire to make aviation more effective as a means of waging war and the hope of being able to save the lives of some of our flyers