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Colonel Rees commenced his talk by describing the condition of the air service in England at the beginning of the war and showed how the system of generalization was supplanted by one of specialization in bombing, scouting and photographing. Then he contrasted the different types of machines and the change in the methods of fighting and observing. Two years ago the "Huns" fought in squadrons while the English never fought in more than pairs. Now the English fight in squads of ten or twelve machines, and the Germans in squads of twenty. But even in spite of the numbers, England...
Sergeant Arthur Guy Empey of the British Army, author of the famous war book "Over the Top," will speak at Symphony Hall, Boston, tonight at 8.15. He will describe his experiences in french warfare, including bomb-throwing and machine gun and bayonet fighting...
Perhaps the most popular of war books is "Over the Top." Last summer the R. O. T. C. found it cursory reading of a delightful kind. The author will speak in Symphony Hall this evening, so that members of the Corps who do not go will be haunted for days by, "You ought to have been there." Notebooks should be left at home, for at this lecture seriousness is censored. "The Role of the High Command" is not so much the subject as "The Role of Thomas Atkins...
...University Reserve Officers' Training Corps will form for the march to Fresh Pond, where it will be inspected by Secretary of War Baker, at 8.45 o'clock. At their drills this morning, the first and second battalions will be told where to assemble. The third will meet on the river-bank in front of Gore Hall...
...hold the esteem of the War Department gained by last summer's corps should be the ambition of every man. The success or failure of this inspection depends for the most part on the men newly enrolled. That the officers and non-commissioned officers will do credit to the University we know. They are veterans of many a review: Joffre, Wood, and Edwards have praised them,--they are the best amateur troops in the country. So it is up to the members of Military Science...