Word: plan
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Captain Cordier is at present working out a detailed plan of instruction, but the final announcements cannot be made until it is approximately known how many men will enrol in the unit. In accordance with instructions from the War Department Captain Cordier has already made application for the discharge from the militia of certain men who are both in Military Science 1 and in some organization of the state militia. Any undergraduates who are at present in the militia and who wish to join the officers' unit for the second half-year should hand in their names to Captain Cordier...
According to the plan of the present course all the fundamental close order and extended order drill will be learned before the summer training begins. During July and August the entire time can be devoted to instruction in the problems of terrain and the command of troops in fighting formations. The advantage of men joining the unit now rather than later cannot be urged too strongly. Some comment has been made about Military Science 1 counting as a half-course. Since every half-course in College is theoretically supposed to require nine hours' work including lectures, there is no reason...
Profiting by the experiences of European belligerents in the early stages of the war, the Government has outlined a plan for the organization of flying units throughout this country, certain restrictions being placed upon applicants for training and commissions as aviators in the Signal Corps. All applicants must pass both a physical and mental examination, a year or more in college being sufficient to pass the latter requirement. Those who are received for training at one of the Government schools, of which several have already been established, are ranked as sergeants and if they are accepted as regular commissioned officers...
...from the University who signify their willingness to take up the work seriously will be organized into a unit to begin regular Government instruction this summer at Squantum if the Government will establish a school there or at some other school if it is practical. This is the plan which the organizer of the unit intended to follow before the war crisis arose. It is planned now to meet the emergency of a declaration of war by passing upon the applications here and in the event of war to submit a certain number of them in a body...
...plan of training has been announced. Surely the universal loyalty which has so often been voiced in the last year will not fall now. The service is for the Nation...