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targets. An elaborate course in bayonet work was also inaugurated as the officers had received little or no instruction in the manual now in general use on the Western Front. A system of trenches patterned after those at Fresh Pond was outlined and trench duties including the mechanism of relief's were explained fully. Much time was present, too, in the organization of French platoons and in drilling them in the various formations used in the regimental exercises at Barre...
...declared that this was no time to wonder what to do, but it was a time to act. There were two duties incumbent on all college men: namely, to prepare to be good citizens after the war and to prepare to lead troops on the western front. He dwelt on the wonderful opportunity afforded by the presence of Captain Amann as an instructor in the science of modern warfare and the fact that if no other result was reaped from the courses offered, coming in touch with a man who has actually been on the fighting line was an experience...
...completed except a few points in the first line, and in one of the boyeaux, and the men are now engaged in performing the finishing details which will make the trenches habitable. The ever difficult problem of drainage is being met in the several ways adopted on the Western front, floor gratings are being constructed and placed and weak portions of the trench walls are being braced and reenforced. After the return of the third battalion from Wake-field combat exercises will be held on this reproduced section of the French front, and later, following the principles of training used...
...They enlisted in the Naval Reserve Flying Corps a month ago intending to join one of the series of camps that will be established at Squantum this summer for training in aviation, but word was received the latter part of last week that they were to report at the western camp today...
...Training Corps was delivered last night by Lieutenant Morize on the subject of the duties of the platoon leader in the trenches. In addition to the usual program, the lecture was vividly illustrated by stereoptican pictures made from photographs which Lieutenant Morize took while in the trenches on the western front. Few of the lectures which the French Mission have given have been of greater practical value and interest...