Word: regiments
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Harvard Regiment welcomed this morning its opportunity to present arms to the Secretary of War. Organization and reorganization this corps has undergone, each time that a way has partly opened for those who were its members to enter the nation's regular services. Appearing first in the winter of 1915 as the spontaneous full-sweeping effort of Harvard undergraduates to get what training they could at a time when official opportunities for military instruction were at a minimum, the regiment at Cambridge early became a rallying point for the spirit of national service in colleges throughout the East. Improving...
...Baker will leave Cambridge a little after 9.30 o'clock, arriving at Fresh Pond in time to inspect the regiment as soon as it is drawn up in line of masses. He will then witness the maneuvres on the open ground and in the trenches. The most important part of this exercise will be the debouchement from the first-line trenches. Lieutenant Morize, who has drilled Military Science 2 in the new formations, will direct all the work. A whole company of the new American size of 250 men and with the new formations of the platoons will be formed...
...must appear in the regiment on this occasion except in uniform. WILLIAM F. FLYNN, Major, U. S. A., Retired...
...regiment will reassemble and at command will break into a column of squads from the right and march past the Secretary at some point to be selected on the return route, officers and the regimental color saluting...
...After the Secretary has inspected the regiment, the company organized under the new tables will be formed and the organization demonstrated under direction of Lieutenant Morize...