Word: commandeer
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Battalion, under command of Major E. M. Briggs, R.O.T.C., will march to the Wakefield target range Monday, June 18, for a week's target practice...
...formations in ranks, except when actually receiving instruction, cadets will be brought to "attention" by the officer or non-commissioned officer in charge upon the approach of a tactical instructor. The officer or non-command "rest" or "at ease" after the instructor has passed, or if he remains in the vicinity after acknowledging the salute. No courtesies will be rendered, however, on any field work (sketching, target practice, marches in the field, etc.) unless cadets are addressed by, or addressing, an officer...
...agony of being looked at, one man in an unnamed company fell over, presumably from stage-fright or weakness of the knees, although the later diagnosis was unpatriotic German measles. Seeing him, in the next company men fell over by flocks. It is recorded that one corporal gave the command "Follow me!" and proceeded with appetite to bite the dust...
That is the simple record of sixteen months' development. From no beginning, under command of Captain Cordier there has been established at the University a camp prepared to furnish trained and competent officers for the country in its need. It may be believed without exaggeration that the post of Commandant of the Harvard Corps has become in the work of preparing leaders for our armies second only to the post of Commandant at West Point...
...housed. After reviewing the members of the radio school, some 110 strong, in uniform, the visitors, accompanied by the University officials, inspected the sleeping quarters and classrooms in Pierce Hall, and the equipment and classrooms in the Cruft Laboratory. A detail from the United States Marine Corps, under command of Captain J. A. Adams, which served as an escort to the party was drawn up on the lawn in front of Pierce Hall. The Marine Corps band played at intervals during the inspection which lasted about an hour...