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...thorough in every re- spect. It will include besides instruction in the School of the Soldier, Squad, Company, Battalion and Regiment, the actual construction of trenches, bomb proofs, machine gun positions, etc., similar to those actually used by the French Army on the western front; and also gallery and target practice, bayonet fencing, field exercises, practice marches and manoeuvres. A large corps of topographical instructors have been added to the military department, and each cadet will be taught how to make road, position and outpost sketches...
...evening, President W. H. Welcott of Johns Hopkins University, will discuss the formation of the National Research Council at the request of the President of the United States and D. S. W. Stratton, director of the National Bureaus of Standards, Washington, D. C., will speak on target practice in the navy...
...learned from a telegram yesterday that the Second Battalion of the First Antillery Regiment is still at the border engaged in target practice and will not entrain for the North for at least a week. The First Battalion is the only body of troops to have left, and is expected to arrive in Boston about next Wednesday. It will pass through Fort Worth, Texarkana, Little Rock, and St. Louis; from there to Buffalo, and then home by way of Albany and New York. After reaching Boston, the troops will be forced to spend several days at the armory before they...
After the war game, the naval "rookies" went to Hampton Roads, and were reviewed at Fortress Monroe. At Tangier Sound selected gun crews engaged in target practice with three and five inch guns, while others practiced firing one-pounders from small boats...
...their physical drill and for their practical field training; but, in order to fit them for that experience, and to keep their interest active, we organized a course of military lectures, to be given by officers of the regular army, and prepared rifle ranges where students could have target practice. We are convinced that more can be done by leaving the military drill to the summer camp, and by emphasizing, within the university itself, the intellectual elements of a military education...