Word: regular
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...applicants for admission; the result was that all members of the Corps who applied and who were physically fit and older than 20 years and nine months were, with few exceptions, accepted. Over a hundred others successfully passed the examinations for provisional second lieutenancies in the regular army. The rest of the men, though at present not in the service, are in a position to advance rapidly when they become...
...began. Previous to that time drill had been held nine hours a week. For a month the work consisted of close and open order drill, gallery practice, and bayonet instruction under the supervision of Captains Cordier, Shannon and Bowen, and Sergeants Bender, Boyd, Brown, Kennedy and Lynch of the regular army. Gradually the officers of the French Mission--Lieutenant-Colonel Paul Azan, Major de Reviers de Mauny, Captain Adolph Dupont, Lieutenant Andre Morize, and Lieutenant Jean Giraudoux--took the regiment in hand and began the instruction in French open order formations and tactics of defense and attack. There was begun...
...times: Saturday: 12 to 6 o'clock; Monday, 12 to 1.30 o'clock, 6 to 7.30 o'clock; Tuesday, 12 to 1.30 o'clock, 6 to 7.30 o'clock. The books will be on sale at the Co-operative Society after Tuesday, and may be purchased there at the regular price...
...established in Princeton this summer. Principal interest centres in the fact that the War Department has decided to recognize the camp as furnishing valuable preliminary training for the series of Government training camps to be opened later, as well as for those subject to draft, and, that a regular army officer, retired, will be detailed as camp commandant...
...permanent one. They go with the best of military ideas instilled into their successors and the men who have worked under them. A schedule of training is to be followed which can do nothing but assure to every man a completely satisfactory training. The departure of these regular army officers must bring home to every mind the fact that there is a singular shortage of such men in the United States. And with this the corollary that an enormous number must soon be found or made, if our country is to put her utmost into this war, and we earnestly...