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Three thousand men make up this R. O. T. C. training regiment. There are four battalions, consisting of four companies each. A regular army major commands each battalion and there are three officers for every company. A captain or first lieutenant of the Reserve is the company commander and he is assisted by a first lieutenant of the national army and a second lieutenant of the regular army. The quota of any one institution is usually distributed throughout one battalion. All representatives of the University except the ones who had been detailed to Camp Devens are in the first battalion...
...killed in action. He was a second lieutenant in the Machine Gun Company of the 16th Infantry. Obtaining his commission at the first Plattsburg Training Camp, Clarke was one of the first to leave for France, and was with several commands before being finally assigned to the 16th Regiment...
...during the summer and next year, certain changes in organization, contemplated for some time, will be made during the coming week. It is planned to centralize the administrative authority by abolishing the Tactical Staff, and giving the entire command to the Commandant, an assistant to the Commandant, and the Regimental Adjutant. The latter position is to be filled during the summer by Major C. C. Lane, long associated with the Corps and probably more familiar with its present needs than any other one man. Lieutenant Morize is expected to act in the capacity of Assistant to the Commandant, and will...
...Corps. Outside of formations, impatience has frequently been expressed with the manner in which affairs have been conducted, and the errors made have been the subject of much--too much--undergraduate criticism. Few men stop to realize the immense difficulties attendant upon the operation of a organization like the Regiment, which is in effect a small depot brigade for officers that feeds its leaders into the service at the exact time when they have been trained to be of the greatest military value. As a matter of fact much credit and many thanks are due to those on whom...
They have studied the I.D.R. until they know the school of the regiment backwards, they can mount and relieve the guard, and single-handed, can pursue the husky Hun back to the gates of Berlin--on paper; all this without a waver or differing in one detail from established precedent...