Word: drilled
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Although elementary drill and the manual of arms are important in the turning out of a good soldier, the probability of his having to do some shooting ought not to be forgotten...
...Dartmouth Battalion attracted much interest when it was first formed, but for various reasons, especially since the faculty decided to allow three hours credit towards a degree for attendance at the Plattsburg camp, the enrolment has fallen to about thirty. These men are now working on extended order drill, and skirmishing drills in hilly country. A signal corps, distinct from the regular battalion, has been organized and holds daily practice in the various forms of military signalling...
Provisional companies will assemble on Soldiers Field for voluntary drill with arms from 3 o'clock until 5 o'clock, under the supervision of the Assistant Instructors and Company Officers...
...continuation and success of military drill at Harvard will depend to a great extent on the showing of the Regiment on tomorrow's hike. Captain S. G. Bayard Schindel, of the General Staff, U. S. Army, has been specially detailed to inspect the Harvard Regiment and report to the War Department as to the practicability of stationing a regular officer in Cambridge next year...
...Schindel will advise the detailing of perhaps one commissioned officer, whereas with a showing of nine hundred the chances of obtaining two commissioned officers and several non-commissioned officers will be good. As has been reiterated so many times, every commendable performance brings the possibility of well-organized military drill next year one step nearer realization...