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When the Corps was so searchingly criticized by Colonel Applin, it was unquestionably in a bad way. The discipline that was maintained last summer had been worn away through apathy and indifference until the whole atmosphere was distinctly bad. At the psychological moment came Colonel Applin, and in his opportune arrival the Corps has certainly shown improvement in the respects he criticized. But the time has been short, and it will be hard to remember everything this afternoon. Every hand raised in ranks and every infraction of strict discipline will be an illuminating commentary on our former laxity...
...careful and critical observers, and their favorable judgment cannot be obtained by a careless display. To a large extent the success of the Corps as a whole this year will be gauged from today's work. If we have profited by our lessons from Lieutenant Morize and Colonel Applin today is the time to show it. There is no other chance...
When the R. O. T. C. performed before Colonel Azan two days ago, an opportunity was offered the corps to redeem itself for the wretched showing before Colonel Applin a week before. During the week, we had benefited from the fervent practice of the manual which had been the rule, and we felt that there was general improvement. Accordingly, we waited with some measure of confidence for Colonel Azan's judgment...
...Colonel Applin saw the Regiment only when we were leaving Fresh Pond to return to Cambridge. He could see then, as I did myself, that the manual of arms was somewhat listless, that our band played, with an irregular rhythm, tunes of a rather funereal character, and that the marching lacked energy and snap. These criticisms do not surprise me at all: I expressed them many times after each exercise, and especially at the beginning of a recent lecture...
...want to make clear this point, that I completely agree with Col. Applin as far as this subject is concerned. I am very grateful to him for having backed up with his high authority the criticism I expressed so often. Our men must acquire more precision and more snap in all the close order exercises, in marching, and in all these details which give troops a good military appearance, and impress in a favorable way the civilian spectators...