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...Regiment will take part in its first night exercise of the year at Waverly tonight. Lieutenant Morize will be in charge and will conduct the exercise in two phases. The first phase will be the pursuit, emphasizing especially the role of the smaller units in this action. After the pursuit has been carried as far as possible, the troops will entrench hastily. Then the second phase of the exercise will commence, The men who have been taking part in the pursuit are supposed to be exhausted and they will be relieved theoretically by a fresh set. These two parts...
...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...