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...experience is required from those who enlist for the new company, but a sound heart and good eyesight are both essential. Each man will be given a single mount in the field and if a third regiment is organized many will undoubtedly be made non-commissioned officers. Preliminary instruction includes the teaching of the different codes, semaphoring, wig-wagging, the making of maps and the reconnoitering necessary to find the position of hostile batteries...
From that time, almost a year and a half ago, when the first Regiment was formed, until now, Captain Cordier has been in charge of instructing Harvard men in the science of war. When he was first detailed at the University, our nation was at peace, and few men, even the wisest, thought the possibility more than remote that we should ever get in the German war. We still talked in terms of Mexico, and wondered whether we had an army sufficient to regulate to the law of stability that revolutionary state. As a nation we had no conception...
...early Regiment actual and necessary preparation for immediate defence were few. The country was apathetic. It was small wonder the University was apathetic. Captain Cordier, as newly appointed Professor of Military Science and Tactics, had to combat that apathy before he could arouse enthusiasm. How well he succeeded is shown by the great success of the Regiment, which became an example and a standard throughout the country. The hundreds of men who last summer attended Plattsburg received their initial impulse to prepare themselves for national service from the inspiration of the Harvard Commandant...
...Regiment will parade on Memorial Day, May 30th, as follows...
Captain Dupont, of the French Mission, is now devoting one or two evenings a week to a series of lectures on modern warfare at Dartmouth. The Dartmouth regiment is at present also being instructed by Sergeant Williams, of the First Corps Cadets, in addition to the regular staff of instructors under Captain Chase...