Word: months
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...examination, he is sent as soon a possible to the truck drivers' camp in Chicago, under the direction of Maj. Harding. Here he is tried out by the authorities to make sure of his ability to drive an automobile, and then he is put in training for about a month. During the period of training he is taught the mechanics of automobile construction and is given actual practice in repairing them. After a month of training he is sent across with a unit and begins active service in about the same status as a private in the army...
...drum and bugle corps. Among these are five trombones, four bassos, four altos, and a proportionate number of piccolos, flutes, clarinets and first and second cornet players. The band will in all probability furnish the music at the Boston College football game on the twenty-third of this month and also at the Brown game on the thirtieth. In spite of the unexpectedly large number already in the band, more men can be used. Civilian bandsmen and members of the Junior Company are eligible. The former, however, must wear uniforms without insignia. All men capable of playing a band instrument...
Enthusiastic reports are being received from the universities of this section. Large amounts are being piled up at Yale, Princeton, and Cornell. Yale's quota has been placed at $75,000, and the average subscription there is well over $30--which means that the military units are giving a month's pay in the great majority of cases. In the University, the marine unit is leading in the average amount of each subscription; they are giving $7 per man; the S. A. T. C. is averaging $4 and the Naval Unit is trailing with one dolar a piece. Unless these...
Captain Dunn, then a first lieutenant, was with his regiment all this time, except for one month in which he was sent to the British front near Armentieres. During his last six months in France he was commander of Company M of his regiment. Shortly before his return he was recommended for promotion but he did not actually get his captaincy until he arrived in this country, on July...
With the rounding out of the first month of its existence, the S. A. T. C. has reached its full stride at the University. The men have been given thorough training in the rudiments of military science, namely, close order drill, physical exercises, guard duty, and the elementary work in the Small Arms Firing Manual. Besides this they have also been instructed for a short period every morning in the new British bayonet-fighting system. A bayonet assault-course is in the process of construstion and parry-sticks have been ordered...