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...instant and willing obedience to every order and, in the absence of an order, to what you believe that order would have been, is the key to the discipline which will beat the Huns, but which is very hard to get," said Colonel Applin, in his address to the R. O. T. C. last evening, in the New Lecture Hall. "The trouble with your organization is that your officers and non-commissioned officers do not insist on the small details and will not be able, later on, to insist on the large ones. You must make your men obey instantly...
Yesterday afternoon Colonel Applin, who is a member of the British Military Mission to the United States, viewed the close-order work of the Regiment, after arriving too late to see the combat exercise. His chief criticism of the corps, whose work in the field exercise was praised by Lieutenant Morize, was that in the close-order tactics the men showed a woeful lack of that "punch" needed to carry field work through to a successful finish under adverse conditions in real warfare...
...Colonel Applin emphasized the need of having strict distinctions between officers, non-commissioned officers and privates, in order to carry discipline to the extent necessary...
...exercise was a fair example of the work of the regiment in simulated field maneuvers, and the faults criticized in another column by Colonel Applin were chiefly connected with the short drill and march home which followed...
...things they do and the way they do them. Upon being censored we are wont to worry a few moments and then relapse into our old ways. Last night we were told the same story, but in a different way, and we hope, with a different effect. Colonel Applin openly and in good, clear English remarked that he was not impressed with our work, that we are half-hearted in our drill, and, in short, that the discipline, appearance and marching of both our R. O. T. C. and that of Yale is decidedly...