Word: drilled
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...ability will have a chance to become an officer. This week there will be a "non-com.'s" school under Captain Cordier, which any men, even though not appointed, are welcome to attend. The regular work for the whole Regiment will begin next week. Companies A and B will drill by squads on Monday evenings, C and D on Tuesday evenings, E and F on Wednesdays, and G and H on Thursdays. The "non-com.'s" school will continue on Fridays. Later in the year Captain Cordier hopes to give each company personal instruction, though for the most part...
...hoped that all men in the Regiment will attend the regular course in Military Science to be given by the Uni- versity. Men should also do a lot of outside reading, which should, for the present, be confined to the Infantry Drill Regulations. For the spring outdoor work is planned, simple at first and working up, if possible, to a tactical engagement between the two battalions. There will be tactical walks, probably by companies, topographical study, and minor tactics. Individual effort and team-work is necessary on the part...
...Wood, M.D. '84, has just returned from a western trip, in the course of which he met the officers who are directing the training work in Chicago, Cleveland, and Buffalo. The men who are taking the training receive instruction in state armories and other places where there is a drill room. Practically all of the instruction is given at night, generally in two periods of an hour or two each week...
...Department at Washington has appointed Captain C. Cordier to command the Harvard Regiment. There will be no drill today or tomorrow, but Captain Cordier will give a lecture in the New Lecture Hall tomorrow afternoon at 5.30 o'clock...
Besides signing the enlistment cards, every one is asked to fill out information blanks, stating previous experience and also what drill hours will be most convenient. Men may obtain copies of the United States Drill Regulations by applying at Weld 3, and by studying these during the vacation, much of the first difficulty of drilling may be avoided...