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...Cadet officers (captains and lieutenants) will be accorded the prescribed courtesies when in uniform. Noncommissioned officers (sergeant and corporals) are not saluted except as prescribed in paragraph 172, Infantry Drill Regulations, and when making reports to the sergeant-major or acting sergeant major at ceremonies, such as guard mounting (paragraph 351, Manual of Interior Guard Duty, U. S. Army, 1914), or other formation where the noncommissioned officer receives reports for the officer in charge. All cadets, however, should stand at attention when addressed by, or addressing, a noncommissioned officer...
...Cadet officers (captain and lieutenants) will be accorded the prescribed courtesies when in uniform. Noncommissioned officers (sergeants and corporals) are not saluted except as prescribed in paragraph 172, Infantry Drill Regulations, and when making reports to the sergeant-major or acting sergeant-major at ceremonies, such as guard mounting (paragraph 351, Manual of Interior Guard Duty, U. S. Army, 1914), or other formation where the noncommissioned officer receives reports for the officer in charge. All cadets, however, should stand at attention when addressed by or addressing a noncommissioned officer...
...Paragraph 5 (I shall not take the space to discuss all the planks) says that "national honor is not the issue in the present controversy with Germany; and national honor is not to be defended by retaliation." This implies that after all national honor is somewhat involved and that we are going to retaliate. God for-bid that we retaliate, that we do to Germany what she has done to us! But what does the Harvard Union for American Neutrality mean by honor? Our people have been killed, not by accident, but deliberately, repeatedly killed and our honor...
...paragraph 6 we are told that "participation by America in the general European conflict would be a misfortune to humanity." Have we any special claim to being the pet of humanity? Just as good people as we are fighting and they are fighting on the side of humanity. Should we smugly hold ourselves to be too good to fight by their sides? We are not the chosen people of humanity, though if we were would we not be under even greater obligations to defend...
...attention of all prospective members of the training corps is invited to paragraph 4 of the enrolment blank. This will free each student in the corps from subsequent obligation to serve in any capacity in the land forces of the United States, unless when offered a commission, he shall voluntarily choose to do so. Paragraph 5, Captain Cordier states, will also allow students with dependant relatives or otherwise unable to serve in the land forces of the United States to be honorably discharged for sufficient cause if deemed wise in the opinion of the commandant