Word: drilled
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...yesterday's Fresh Pond drill, the exercise for Tuesday was practised. It will consist of a march of approach and a debouchement from the second-line trenches. Two of the new American companies will take part, one under the command of Captain F. Parkman '19 and the other under Captain G. C. Barclay...
...Although I am very busy with my other camps I have not ceased to be interested in the training which Lieutenant Morize has given during the year of 1917-18. I was very favorably impressed today. I know that these young men have had only a few afternoons of drill with the whole regiment...
...there with Lieutenant Morize." Colonel Azan is known to us all as the leader of the French Military Mission to the University last year, and as the author of a much-studied treatise on present war tactics, if not through the more personal contact of the lecture hall or drill field. And since he is so well known to us, we are fully aware of the fact that he is an officer with a keen military mind, and an excellent grasp of the means and methods of modern warfare. We have seen but little of him this year...
...other hand, in so far as we have allowed officers any additional instruction after they have completed their first "Plattsburg" training and received their commissions, it has been given them chiefly in conjunction with the manifold duties of their regular commands. They have remained responsible for carrying out the drill and instruction of the men in their companies. The result has been that advanced courses under the British and French officers could not be pursued with the singleness of purpose, the freshness of mental and physical effort, necessary to the task. The Americans were already too absorbed with their...
Academic minds may argue that military drill is not precisely part of a liberal education as it is a physical and not a mental process. Let such persons take part in one maneuver and see if their mental activity is not greater than it would be in an I.D.R. class...