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Both the Signal Corps and the Motor Transport Corps have applied for permission to establish R. O. T. C. units at the University. This was announced yesterday by Colonel Goetz, who added that it was improbable that any other that an artillery unit will be a established here. In addition the War Department has announced its intention of establishing aeronautic units of the R. O. T. C. at all colleges and universities which apply for one. The college instruction, which will be a three-year course, is to be only in ground work, the technical side of aviation, which would...
Major Homans has recently returned from France where he was in service with the American Expeditionary Forces. He was commissioned a major of infantry at the First Officers' Training Camp at Plattsburg and assigned to the Transport and Military Police at Camp Devens where he was a member of the Board of Court Martial. In 1918 he was assigned to the Army General Staff College of the A. E. F. and sent to France...
Charlie Hart, the University boat-rigger, who has been at Princeton for the past week, has satisfactorily completed the work of altering the Princeton 1915 shell from a starboard to a port stroke arrangement, so that it will be unnecessary for the University to transport a shell to Lake Carnegie. Both the University and 1921 crews will use the same re-rigged shell, the race for the Freshman crews being scheduled before that for the University eights. Minor alterations in the rigging to suit the University eight will be made in the interval between the races...
...offensive might have ended where it now stands. But the German populace demands more than an advance--it demands the destruction of the allied resistance and the capture of Paris. Hinderburg must push the assault, backed with decreasing artillery support and supplied over more and more tenuous lines of transport service. In this he is likely to over-reach himself, and when he does we can count on the strategist Foch, who commands the reserves, to counter-attack relentlessly. The rout into which a demoralized victory can be transformed is well illustrated by the slaughter of Russians following their advances...
...ordering that shipping space in the amount of 50 tons per month be set aside by the army transport service for the shipment to France of American Library Association books for soldiers, General Pershing has given unmistakable recognition of the need of reading matter for the use of our men in France...