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Captain James P. Parker '96, U. S. N., commander of the Cadet School of the First Naval District, has been detached from his position as head of the Ensign School and is now military chief of the First Naval District. In this new capacity Captain Parker will have charge of the military personnel of this division of the Navy, serving as one of the four aides of Admiral Wood, commandant of the First Naval District. Captain Parker was placed in command of the Ensign School by the Navy Department last June, when it was situated at the Massachusetts Institute...
When Foch was first offered the command of the French Army he refused unless he could have control of the entire front. He could have chosen no better way to hasten the single Allied Command, that has now given to him and the armies of the Allies their great opportunity to crush the hitherto invincible Hindenburg...
...Department is discussing the plans for the fourth series of training camps for officers, and it is possible there may be many important changes in the plans that were followed in the former system of conducting these camps. Before leaving the Department to take command of a division of the National Army, Major General John F. Morrison, U. S. A., made a recommendation regarding this subject which is now under consideration. He proposed that the work of preparation for service in the various branches of the Service be concentrated at those camps which have been regarded as specially adapted...
...will meet the "volunteer platoon" on Wednesday morning at 7.30 at the Weld Boathouse. The benefit of this special drill is open to any and all members of the regiment who desire extra drill. Special opportunity will be given to each man to command the platoon and special stress will be laid upon the part of the drill which is desired by those present...
...American army officer can outwit a German military command, gain triumph for his country and win the best girl on earth--in a play. If our dramatists were only directing intelligence operations behind the Teuton lines this week we might expect to have those 70 Prussian army divisions outflanked and slaughtered by Easter and the war ended by the Ides of April...