Word: cordinglys
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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There is no reason to believe that this summer's camp will not equal last year's, provided that the Military Science men of this University enrol. They will be the "brains and spinal cord" of the regiment without them discipline and efficient instruction will be impossible. Until we can become officers there is no better task open to us than to teach others what we have learned and thus start them on the road to commissions. The preparatory schools of New England will flock to this camp; it is up to every one of us to do our part...
...staff officers and company commanders will wear leather puttees. Lieutenants will wear roll puttees. Noncoms and privates will wear regulation canvas puttees. Officers will wear the regulation army officer's hat cord (gold and black...
...lived there during their whole period of work. Half of them began wood-chopping on December 24 and the rest took up the job on the day after Christmas. This section paid for its own food and transportation, and were paid at the rate of $2.50 for each cord of wood. The lumber was all oak and will be burned into charcoal. Between 40 and 50 cords were secured in all, the students taking in an average of about six a day. The eleven men who stayed at Sandwich were: P. C. Francis '20, N. L. Harris...
...salute is a mark of respect not given to the individual but to the rank, therefore to the system of which the democratic soldier is supposed to be an intelligent part, therefore the salute is in a sense a salute to one's self. The salute to the hat cord of the second lieutenant, the thin bar of the first lieutenant, is a salute to the principle of order, of discipline, of organized effort. It is therefore answered by the superior rank. Neither the private who salutes nor the major general who returns the salute has lowered himself a hair...
...also interesting that the aspiration of both Yale and Harvard in hat cord color schemes is the black and gold, which is strongly reminiscent of Princeton's colors. That trinity of oriflammes which once made gaudy the air on November afternoons have now become more mixed than an Austrian nationality...