Word: interestingly
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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General Wood has continually shown great interest in the Regiment and is coming to Boston from New York after a trip in the South for the special purpose of speaking this afternoon. He is keeping in touch with the progress of the Regiment and firmly believes that its success will have far-reaching effects upon the preparedness movement, especially among other colleges...
...Regiment marks the establishment of the organization on a firm footing as a recognized University institution. The rules are only those indispensable to the efficiency of a military body, and they will be fully obeyed in both letter and spirit by all who have not a mere dilettante interest in this work. With the prospect excellent that the Legislature will allow the Regiment to use rifles, it seems that students are to have their wish for an opportunity to learn in a live and efficient body the rudiments of military work. It now behooves all the members to determine...
...object of the Regiment is to impart military training and knowledge to its members during the academic year, and to promote an interest in the student camps of instruction, held during the summer months, under Government supervision. All this with a view to preparing its members for the duties of junior officers of the Army in event...
Captain Cordier, who is instructing the University Regiment, said he feared a gradual slackening of interest if guns were not provided. Adjutant General Cole also appeared in favor of the bill, pointing out that it gave complete control of the organization to the state authorities
...order to make the preparedness movement in the University something more than an ephemeral interest in drilling, a course of lectures in military science has been arranged for the second half-year. To accomplish its object--certainly constructive and essential--the course must be taken by all men qualified to count it toward a degree, and attended by as many others as possible. The lectures will cover the most interesting phase of military training; and those who have done the most irksome part at the summer camps or in the state militias, will not reap the greatest possible benefit...