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...what to make of this man who openly told us we were distinctly bad. Not that the University minds being told that it has faults; it does not. But what aroused us was the fact that each and every member of the R. O. T. C. has known right along that things were in a bad way. We have known it, we have discussed it, and then we have blundered along in the same old manner. Yet we have always kept this knowledge as a secret and until last night no one had found us out. Inspectors, both official...
...massed populace could see only the peaked Army hats or the white caps of cadets--many, indeed, nothing but the points of serried bayonets and the mounted officers. We chanced to stand on the Common where the uniformed men could be seen only when they emerged from the multitude along Boylston street as the column swung into Park square. Presently a flag came floating along in full view above the throng. It seemed a living presence--a radiant embodiment visualizing the impelling cause of the unseen array. Men and boys bared their heads. "Why don't women find some...
...completing Military Science 2, who are under the required age for the regular Officers' Training Camps, will be eligible. These encampments will be under officers of the Army, and although the men who complete the one-month's course successfully will not be commissioned, the work, which will be along the lines followed at the Fourth Series of Officers' Camps, will be of great value to all men intending to enter a later series of training schools. No exact date has yet been set for the opening of these camps...
...ship-yards and munitions plants will be opened at the University on April 22 under the supervision of R. W. Kelly, Director of the Bureau of Vocational Guidance. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Boston University will co-operate with the University in giving this instruction, which will be along the same lines as that offered at the University of Rochester at the present time. A third school will be opened at Washington University, Seattle...
...breaking the line south or southwest of Amiens, it will then be faced by a problem which its method of advance renders especially difficult. The Germans, since 1870, have consistently employed the methods of what are known as linear strategy; that is, each group of the army advances along its own line of communication, along closely delimited and parallel battle strips. This virtually compels the army to advance in a straight line. And, if a change of direction, as is indicated in the present case, be made to the extent of a half-turn, then to fix the lines...