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...especially valuable for Harvard to supply a proportion of young officers whose training had not been an emergency and intensive training, but a thorough preparation. It is further the case that there are many details of military education in which the methods and the science which the Faculty command could be utilized for improving and developing the methods of instruction now in vogue in the army; for these are, in many particulars, much out of date. In other words, Harvard
...recall and the name of a Turkish or Bulgaria or even an Austrian general? Of the German field commanders who are generals by professional attainment rather than because of birth, we remember hardly as many as half a dozen. There was von Kluck, for instance, who lost at the Marne, and there are von Buelow in Italy and Mackensen. Do you readily think of any more? Among the French such names as Foch and de Castelnau occur, but when recently the command of the French forces in Italy was assigned, presumably to an officer of merit, the name was entirely...
Drills are held Tuesday and Thursday afternoons from 3.30 until 4.30 o'clock. Lieutenant Greene is in command here, and C. Blum '18 is chief petty officer. All the work up to this time has been close order drill without arms, but next week the cadets will have the use of rifles...
...Review will take place in conjunction with the various naval units at this station, Captain James Parker, U. S. N., will command the Review...
...absence of its usual Commander, Lieutenant Joseph Warren, Battalion Adjutant, will command the Third Battalion. WILLIAM F. FLYNN, Major, U. S. A., Retired, Commanding...