Word: formalism
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...command and with such a corps of instructors. Eleven hundred students, nearly the half of all Harvard's enrollment, have joined the regiment's ranks. Today, when they greeted the Secretary of War, they were already prepared to pass before him not alone in the polite ritual of the formal reviewing drill, but to enact for him, on the manoeuvre ground at Fresh Pond illustrations of the actual tactics employed in battle as battles are fought today on the West front. It is even probable that the review enjoyed the distinction of being the first yet shown Mr. Baker...
Today the R. O. T. C. makes its formal debut as a military organization under full equipment. Last Saturday's parade was merely practice; we now come face to face with our first test...
...informal parade of the R. O. T. C. will precede the football game with the Maine Heavy Artillery eleven on Saturday. The formal inspection under arms will begin at 1.30 o'clock and last approximately an hour. At the conclusion of the inspection, the battalions will form near the Freshman football field, behind the five, combined bands which will be brought from Westfield for the game. The corps will enter the north end of the Stadium and proceed in column of squads around the track, after which the regiment will go up into the stands and watch the game...
...advanced courses, including those without uniforms, will take part. Officers will not wear side-arms. Moreover, the R. O. T. C. will march as three separate battalions and not as one regiment. The large band, however, containing the 126 musicians from the five smaller bodies will march as a formal unit...
When Secretary Baker visits the University a week from today, both the exercise in the trenches and the formal review will take place at Fresh Pond. The members of Military Science 2 will first take part in a maneuver in the trenches similar to those carried out by the R. O. T. C. last summer. After this, the regiment will form as a unit including the students enrolled in both courses and will be inspected by the Secretary...