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...ability as a potential officer, he received what is known as a Government grant, and also a grant of money for those who then went into the regular army. So, at the end of every academic year young men were turned out all over England experienced in military drill and skilled in the use of a rifle, ready to serve as army officers in case of a national emergency. Your Reserve Officers' Training Corps is conducted on much the same lines, I understand, and you can realize what a great aid our young student-officers proved to England, when...
...great public schools of England had much the same system as the colleges before the war with the junior branch of the Officers' Training Corps. At the end of their courses the graduates mostly went into civil life, but the experience they received in military drill while in the schools proved invaluable when the time for action came. You see, when the war broke out there was an immediate call for officers and instantly there was a response from 25,000 of the old boys, who had received training as officers in the different colleges and schools...
...Friday afternoon, April 13, the first regimental drill of the year will be held in the Stadium. The companies will assemble at 3.30 o'clock and will march to Soldiers Field where they will drill by battalions for a short time. At 5.30 o'clock they will be drawn up with the band in line of masses in the Stadium, and the retreat ceremony will be held, after which the battalions will pass in review before Captain Cordier and the military staff. This occasion will give the public the first opportunity to see the Training Corps drill together. Seats...
...Reserve Officers Training Corps to further enlistment. If the Faculty authorizes the increase and there is no reason to suppose that they will not, the students who join will be accepted only after a thorough physical examination. The new recruits will be formed into provisional companies, which will drill separately for such a number of hours a week as will enable them to catch up to the companies already formed. When this is accomplished the recruits will be taken into the old companies, which will then be filled to war strength. The recruiting station will be open until Easter vacation...
...companies originally formed for athletes, which drilled four hours on Mondays, will drill one hour daily five times a week after the vacation. It was found that the long and strenuous drill period did not give as good results as were obtained from the shorter sessions...