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...pass in review with the evenest ranks may bear little relation to fighting in France, but it does give a good hint as to the general effectiveness of a regiment. The best way to convince the University committee that this Corps is actually more than a mob of enthusiastic boys is to make that review one worthy of praise. It so happens that the members of the committee cannot be present in Cambridge to watch the daily progress of the regiment, and they will naturally judge much from what they see today. Make their impression one which will make them...
...regiment will form at 3 P. M. in the following manner...
...Harvard Regiment will form on the left of the line. After the various naval units have taken their places in line, the Band and the three battalions of the regiment will be placed successively in position by their several commanders, in line of masses, with intervals reduced to a few paces...
...first sight these regulations, as laid down in General Orders No. 11, may appear a trifle severe; military probation for a few cuts and a missing button is a rather heavy penalty. In a way such radical methods have caused skeptics to believe that the disciplinary backbone of the Regiment was in bad need of bracing...
...been apparent, however, since the days of Valley Forge that no military program could be pushed through by enthusiasm alone. The University learned the lesson in the old days of the first Harvard Regiment; the Iron Battalion of last summer was another cruel demonstration of the same truth. Although the Corps is not yet in great need of the heavy threat of probation to preserve discipline, it is better that the rigid system be now put into force before the efficiency of the-Corps suffers by the slackness of a few eccentric members...