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...Drills will continue for ten weeks and will cover squad, platoon, company, and battalion organization. They will be held on Wednesdays and Thursdays in the Rogers building. It is planned to appoint temporary petty officers at each drill until permanent organization plans are completed. This is the first time in the four year history of the unit that drills have been carried on extensively...
...purposes of the Naval R. O. T. C. is to train officers, that is, leaders of men," declared Captain B. B. Wygant, U. S. N., professor of Naval Science and Tactics, in stating the value and aims of military drill yesterday. "No man can lead or command others effectively until he can command himself...
...Group drill, like team athletics, teaches self control or command over oneself while a member of the group When acting as a leader one develops in addition self confidence, initiative, and a sense of responsibility. Moreover such drill improves posture, teaches alertness, and inoculates respect for authority...
...announcement that Harvard's naval training unit will henceforth include infantry drill as a regular part of its curriculum marks a sensible conclusion to a protracted period of controversy with naval headquarters at Washington. The move came as a belated but effective attempt to forestall any possible removal of the naval unit, when it was definitely learned that, in case of war, collegiate naval officers would be drawn exclusively from the six universities, of which Harvard is at the present time one, maintaining training units. Conditions in the University's naval department have not been entirely satisfactory to Washington since...
...more martial than a technical knowledge of naval gunnery, and plays at least as important a part in the making of an officer. Furthermore, Naval Science has unfortunately been branded as a snap course, offering an easy grade and, if the undergraduate so desires, a pleasant summer cruise. Compulsory drill every week will have the added advantage of discouraging the student seeking "gentlemen" grades with a minimum expenditure of energy...