Word: roome
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Monday: 8-9 (section room) Infantry Drill Regulations, pp. 7-14. 9.15-5.30, Practical Work, Field Fortifications. 7.45, Lecture by an Officer of the French Mission...
Saturday: 8-9 (section room) Infantry drill regulations, pp. 39-46. 9.30-10.30, Inspection under arms. 11-12, Examination on the subject matter of lectures given during the week...
...instructive to note the air with which the lecture room greets the remarks of the French officers. If the orals are a test of the average college man's ability as a linguist, French should be as intelligible to him as Hottentot to an Eskimo. Yet we hear the voluminous applause of six hundred men at the proper dramatic pause, and the right ripple or broad guffaw of as many at the humorous interlude. It may be that a few, habituated to the Gallic tongue, lead the applause, and the rest follow to show that they also...
...introduction into the plan of military training of class-room work, which is conducted in much the same manner as the ordinary College routine, has brought the embryo soldier back from the military cloudland in which he has been wandering for the past two weeks of uninterrupted drill. Class-rooms are something to which he has become inured by long training. Much as he may tremble on the field before the eye of the omniscent instructor, once safe behind the first-line trenches of a bench in a Sever Hall room, he feels himself master of his own destiny...
...class-room work which is now being undertaken may not be "passed" as other work is passed, counted for a degree, and forgotten. The course of training is for the individual man that he may become a better soldier? No one is working for marks, no one is trying to hoodwink an instructor, no one is doing the minimum of study, who is fit to be an officer and a leader of men. That student cadet who allows his study of the work he has undertaken to slip by as most men have allowed their college work to slip...