Word: roades
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...last year, Memorial Day was swiftly on the road to becoming a holiday and no more--a day of freedom from routine without special meaning. For the younger generation's interest in the Civil War is historical rather than personal and our honor for the dead who gave up their lives in that struggle was so taken for granted that each year saw less and less deep feeling within us. We honored those heroes of '61, but we did it subconsciously and with little appreciation of the hell they had been through...
...exercise, the regiment will be formed into two new American companies under the command of Captains F. Parkman '19 and G. C. Barclay '19. At the appointed time the two companies will be drawn up on the road west of the Fresh Pond Reservation. They will move up to the system of trenches above Command Post Ridge and debouch in two waves to attack the enemy trenches. They will put into practice the latest methods of advancing from shell-hole to shell hole under fire as explained recently by Colonel Azan...
...however, the cadet will be familiar with the I.D.R. through the school of the battalion. Training in guard duty, signalling, bayonet fighting, grenade throwing and physical drill will also be given at various times. Lectures will be delivered daily; and the men will be brought into condition by frequent road marches with varied equipment. Toward the end of the course the cadets will spend much time in field work, including practice in attack and defence...
Every cadet in the cavalry division will receive about an hour and a half of instruction in riding and hippology each day, and will also take part in troop drill for two hours. This work will be supplemented occasionally by road marches...
...University enrol. They will be the "brains and spinal cord" of the regiment without them discipline and efficient instruction will be impossible. Until we can become officers there is no better task open to us than to teach others what we have learned and thus start them on the road to commissions. The preparatory schools of New England will flock to this camp; it is up to every one of us to do our part in teaching them the few fundamentals which they as yet have not been able to acquire The Harvard man belongs at Harvard; to help...