Word: regiment
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...think that a certain number of people were surprised to see, yesterday, in the CRIMSON, on the same page, two articles about the R. O. T. C., one of them entitled "Regiment successful in exercises: work pleased Morize"--and the other: "Col. Applin criticizes discipline in the Corps." That impression must have been still stronger for the readers of the Boston papers, which reproduced those two articles in the same column, incompletely, and without any comment...
Colonel Applin saw the Regiment only when we were leaving Fresh Pond to return to Cambridge. He could see then, as I did myself, that the manual of arms was somewhat listless, that our band played, with an irregular rhythm, tunes of a rather funereal character, and that the marching lacked energy and snap. These criticisms do not surprise me at all: I expressed them many times after each exercise, and especially at the beginning of a recent lecture...
...whole Regiment has had but a few opportunities to drill since the return of fine weather. More and more we shall insist on that point, and everybody in the Corps will be eager to do his best in order that the Harvard R. O. T. C. may maintain and deserve its reputation...
...same unit, linking in an invisible chain men and officers, so that, in any formation, in any situation, however critical it may be, the soldier follows his leader and entirely submits to his will and inspiration. Precision and snap in close order must be improved in the regiment: we are going to work at it, harder and harder. But the discipline itself, the real and necessary discipline, men already have. ANDRE MORIZE...
Funds for the support of the regiment throughout its instruction period will be supplied by the graduates and by others interested in the work of the University...