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...outside the Superior Officers of the General Staff has had an equal opportunity to study the strategical and tactical plans of the A. E. F. His section was each day provided with maps showing the daily withdrawals and additions of the German battalions on the entire Western Front. It is expected that Professon Johnston will resume his duties as instructor in the University with the beginning of the fall term...
...Dodecanesian Islands are situated on the western coast of Asia Minor, and although the population is almost entirely Greek, formerly belonged to Turkey. In the Turko-Italian war of 1912, they were seized by Italy, and in spite of frequent protests by the inhabitants, have remained in the possession of that country ever since. The name Dodecanesian, meaning 12 islands, does not appear on any map, for the term has only recently come to be applied to this group of islands...
...Western Reserve University sent a Unit to Paris to serve for a period of three months in the American Ambulance at Neuilly. This group was followed by a Harvard Unit, which served with the French for the next three months...
...announcement that Yale College, although not Sheffield, has ratified a proposal of the Student Council to limit the number of offices which an individual may hold will arouse wide-spread interest. Such a policy has long been in vogue in some preparatory schools and western universities. The exponents of the system defend it on the ground that it tends to efficiency in the administration of undergraduate activities in that it restrains a man from undertaking more than he can successfully accomplish. The benefits of experience in management are more equally distributed, and studies are said to receive more attention...
...expected that a battery of eight inch howitzers of the latest model and of the type used by the American heavy artillery regiments on the western front will be installed. Trench mortars, anti-aircraft guns, and a complete set of range-finding instruments and plotting boards such as those used by the Coast Artillery Corps will also be included in the equipment. The Infantry Reserve Officers' Training Corps which is in operation at present will be enlarged next all by the addition of a machine gun company...