Word: regimentations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Elden Sawhill '43 has been appointed Cadet Colonel of the Harvard ROTC Regiment, according to the Military Science Department announcement last night. He will officially take command on Monday when fall drill begins at Soldier's Field...
Second in command of the regiment and Commander of the First Battalion is James H. Reynolds, Jr. '43, newly-appointed Cadet Lieutenant Colonel. This is a change from last year's organization when the second ranking officer was Regimental Executive...
...early months of 1917 were occupied with a series of heated drives among the student body to fill the quota of men in ROTC demanded by the War Department. Under the direction of Captain Cordier, the new regiment had barely begun its intensified training when the war with Germany broke...
Beginning May 7, 1917 the units opened an intensive training period with eight hours of drill each day. It was this regiment which marched proudly in review before its distinguished guest Marshal Joffre, who said to its commanding officer, "you are to be congratulated upon being identified with such a magnificent corps of future officers of the American army as I saw at Harvard this afternoon.... the ... appearance was superb, and I admired their discipline and military carriage...
Probably the Harvard Regiment, faced with the prospect of drilling all summer under seasoned and exacting American and French officers, could just barely groan once more when the Military Office in Weld 3 informed the students that the Regiment would take "a long hike of 250 miles during the month of July 16 to August 15." Already by June jubilant headlines in the CRIMSON heralded the long awaited arrival of machine guns for training purposes: "Third Machine Gun Here... Lecture on First Aid... Collection To Be Taken For Ammunition...