Word: western
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...such coaches as P. D. Haughton '99, Capt. C. A. Coolidge '17, and Capt. G. H. Hoban, a former All-American player from Dartmouth, are learning the rudiments of the game, and later in the season should make formidable aggregations. At Westfield and other camps in the middle and western part of the state preparation for the season is already well under way. From Westfield, the 1st Maine Heavy Artillery is to send a team against the informal University in Cambridge. In this regiment are many natural athletes from the farms and woods of Maine, who need only coaching such...
...throughout the country show a substantial decrease in the number of students attending due to the influence of war. In the universities, the graduate schools record the greatest losses with the exception of the medical schools which alone have in general shown an increase in enrolment. Many of the western co-educational universities show a nearly normal registration owing to the great increase of women students over last year. Several of the western institutions have also made a great effort to bring undrafted students back to their studies and they anticipate an increase in registration after the close...
...they can amble up to a "pill box" and fire point blank. Some new weapon or method of attack will certainly be devised to put the machine gun strongholds out of commission. Whatever is contrived, however, will be but one more step in the development taking place along the Western spout...
...second Liberty Loan drive is on. The second offensive waged by the American people as a whole against the German government has been started. The ultimate object is the destruction of the German armies through supplies of men and munitions on the western front. The immediate objective, however, is three billions of dollars pledged to the government before November...
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...