Word: mannerisms
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...lieutenant). If grouped together and not in ranks, the first to perceive the officer will give the word "attention," when all will remain in this position until the officer has passed or directs otherwise. If not in ranks all will render the prescribed salute. Individual cadets in like manner observe these rules...
...with the working out of an agreement between two rulers of adjoining kingdoms, made upon the arrival of an heir in each of the royal families, providing for the marriage of their children when they become of age. When the heirs grow up and manifest in a decided manner their own inclinations, complications result which provide entertaining and highly amusing situations. The scene is laid somewhere in southern Europe...
...unit will mean serious attention to all requirements and it is not designed to give men a pleasant form of afternoon exercise. The course is intended to enable Harvard undergraduates to meet the responsibilities of citizenship at a time of national crisis in an intelligent and honorable manner...
...thorough way for anyone to obtain a reserve officer's commission is to enroll in the unit imediately and thereby realize his wish by September first or before. Many are questioning the advisability of obligating themselves for the summer camp. The practical drill that will be given in this manner must be had before any man could think of accepting the lowest commission. Should the present imminence of war disappear by June, no one who enrolls in the course now will be held to the obligation of attending any camps...
Learn this, and although failing in all manner of bookish wisdom, your college education will not have been in vain, for you will have learned to rub elbows with the broad, infinitely varied outside world...