Word: cordier
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...June, 1917, when Captain Cordier, the commanding officer of the Harvard R. O. T. C., who had done so much for military training at the University, was called to Washington, the regiment suffered a severe blow. The organization and preliminary training had, indeed, been ably accomplished, Colonel Azan and his distinguished associates were ready to begin their instruction; but arrangements for the Barre Camp which was to be the culmination of three months' intensive training had to be carried through Captain James A. Shannon, 11th Cavalry, U. S. A., took up the work as commanding officer and carried the difficult...
...beyond a doubt their absence has menaced the strength of our military organization this year. Equally certain, however, is the fact that the new order will re-establish that discipline, respect for authority, and esprit de corps that will always be connected with the names of Azan, Shannon and Cordier...
...charts have the endorsement of General Leonard Wood who went over them carefully with his aide, Lieut. Osmun; and many other Regular Army officers have spoken highly of them, including Major Constant Cordier, recently the commandant of the Harvard Regiment...
...Monday, May 7, the period of intensive training began. Previous to that time drill had been held nine hours a week. For a month the work consisted of close and open order drill, gallery practice, and bayonet instruction under the supervision of Captains Cordier, Shannon and Bowen, and Sergeants Bender, Boyd, Brown, Kennedy and Lynch of the regular army. Gradually the officers of the French Mission--Lieutenant-Colonel Paul Azan, Major de Reviers de Mauny, Captain Adolph Dupont, Lieutenant Andre Morize, and Lieutenant Jean Giraudoux--took the regiment in hand and began the instruction in French open order formations...
...relieved by the third. At the conclusion of the academic year on June 25 the companies moved into barracks in the Freshman Dormitories. Captains Cordier and Bowen and also the regular non-commissioned officers were at this time ordered away from Cambridge by the War Department, but the French officers and Captain Shannon remained. During the month in barracks the time was taken up with maneuvers on Soldiers Field, military map sketching, trench construction at Fresh Pond, and combat exercises at Waverly and elsewhere. Section meetings in the mornings and afternoon were devoted to the study of the Infantry Drill...