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...first of the nautical training schools for the instruction of officers of the new merchant marine has been opened in the Students' Astronomical Laboratory of the University. Fourteen similar schools will be established at different parts along the Atlantic coast to recruit and train the 10,000 officers needed for the merchant ships to be built...
...under the leadership of the French officers, spent the day near Fresh Pond, engaged in the outlining and construction of trenches. The Frenchmen have laid out a system of defences which include first and second line trenches, communication trenches and boyeaux, with bombproofs and dug-outs at intervals along the line. The plans also include machine gun positions and bombing posts. Two companies each day will devote their entire time to the study of these positions and the construction of a portion of the trenches, under the guidance and constant instruction of the officers...
...prime topics of discussion with newspapers, educators, and the great public used to be, before the war came along to lift their attention to loftier things, whether college men were democratic or not. A like subject is little worth the debate that has been put upon it. The question depends on what is meant by democratic. College men are more open to fair judgments of their fellows because they associate with them in a most intimate way. But, like other men, they are subject to the errors of judgment...
...ambulance service have arrived in the past few days, from Dartmouth, Princeton, Yale, Bowdoin, Williams, Beloit and the University. They will go directly to Paris for a short period of training, and then leave for actual service, where the men will be divided up into sections and distributed along the French front where their services are most needed in order to relieve men for the front...
With 25 members of the University enlisted in the Signal Reserve Corps, work in this branch of the service here has been given an excellent start. Classes have been held in the Cruft Laboratory for two weeks and the men are well along in the radio work which is the basis of the course. The classes each night have consisted of a one hour lecture on radio theory, followed by an hour of code work, the men being divided into sections according to their ability to receive the code...