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Brigadier General John A. Johnston, commanding general of the Northeastern Department, will address the members of the University Training Corps at the New Lecture Hall Tuesday evening at 8 o'clock. The meeting will be a formal opening of practical training for the spring, and plans for the work in the R. O. T. C. during the next few months will be outlined at that time. All members of the Corps will be required to attend in uniform...
...General Johnston has had long experience in the regular service. He was appointed to the United States Military Academy from Pennsylvania in 1875, and graduated four years later. During the year 1902 he went to Europe with Generals Corbin, Young and Wood as guests of the Emperor of Germany, and prepared a report of the Teuton War Manoeuvers which these officers witnessed. General Johnston attained his present rank in the year of 1903, when he resigned from active service. He is now on active duty once more, and for the duration...
March 5: Lieut, Colonel Blake: Instruction in Small Arms Firing. (This lecture will be followed by a band concert, with an address by General John A. Johnston, Brig. Gen'l., U. S. A. Members of Military Science 2 are to attend). Uniforms will be worn...
...lecture to the members of Military Science 1 and 2 last evening, Professor R. M. Johnston pointed out the weaknesses of the United States military policy since the time of the Mexican war, and described the unfortunate results which have been caused by it. Professor Johnston attacked first the theory of recruiting and hastily equipping a mob of recruits with no previous military experience. Statements made by General Meade, Kirby Smith and McClellan at the close of the Mexican campaign agreed in the assertation that the volunteers were not only inefficient and unmanageable, but that they murdered and pillaged wherever...
...three brigades of regulars in 1861 they could have occupied Richmond, New Orleans and Charleston, and stopped the war there. If, in 1915, the United States had had a regular force of half a million, and fairly efficient reserve of twice that number, it is my belief," said Professor Johnston, "That the Lusitania would never have been sunk...