Word: commandeer
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...author will speak in Symphony Hall this evening, so that members of the Corps who do not go will be haunted for days by, "You ought to have been there." Notebooks should be left at home, for at this lecture seriousness is censored. "The Role of the High Command" is not so much the subject as "The Role of Thomas Atkins...
...regiment faced a fresh task, after many of their "veterans" had been called to the colors, and when hundreds of entering freshmen had come up for training. The work of organization and training advanced with despatch and efficiency, as it well could, with experience as it had at command and with such a corps of instructors. Eleven hundred students, nearly the half of all Harvard's enrollment, have joined the regiment's ranks. Today, when they greeted the Secretary of War, they were already prepared to pass before him not alone in the polite ritual of the formal reviewing drill...
...Battalion commanders will take command of their battalions and have them in position on the line specified in Par. 1, promptly at the hour named with out further instructions...
...regiment will reassemble and at command will break into a column of squads from the right and march past the Secretary at some point to be selected on the return route, officers and the regimental color saluting...
...Fresh Pond yesterday afternoon where they received instruction from Lieutenant Morize on the formation and movements of a company formed according to the new United States army regulations. The men were divided into four platoons comprising one full company of 250 men. Captain C. Canfield '19, was in command of the company and each platoon was also put under a captain. F. Parkman '19, L. A. Wheeler '18, P. Cabot '18, and W. R. Odell, Jr., '19, were chosen for this purpose, the other captains and lieutenants observing and criticising the manoeuver. Each platoon was composed...