Word: perring
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Post Tailor for the Reserve Officers' Training Corps, Howard E. Lamson, will have the distinctive badge prescribed for the R. O. T. C. in stock and has offered to sell these sewed on to blouse and shirt at 65 cents per pair...
Practical Instruction, May 21--July 16: Infantry Drill, three hours per day: First Aid, one hour per week...
Topography to commence May 21: Including Map Reading, Orientation, Road, Position, and Output Sketching; two companies per...
...With the assistance of the French and American officers the original program of training will be carried out. About 1000 men are now enrolled in the Corps, and the number will be increased to 1500 or more. Commencing May 14, nine and one-half hours per day will be devoted to military instruction. The schedule is most comprehensive and the training will be thorough in every re- spect. It will include besides instruction in the School of the Soldier, Squad, Company, Battalion and Regiment, the actual construction of trenches, bomb proofs, machine gun positions, etc., similar to those actually used...
...then never see service even in the ranks. You must consider how infinitely more important officers are than privates. Napoleon fell largely because he lost all his veterans in the retreat from Moscow and there were no experienced men to lead the troops. It is estimated that 60 per cent. of the French soldiers are brave or cowardly just in proportion as their commander shows these emotions. You must not spoil good material for officers by enlisting aimlessly now, or until special circumstances arise to warrant such action. For the present, Yale men should content themselves with making themselves...