Word: soldierly
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...here will remember lastingly the brave and simple French soldier. It is to be expected that Joffre will remember Harvard. Perhaps through him France will gain an increased respect for the learning of America, and the two nations be bound yet more firmly by the ties of free thinking as by the ties of free action...
...college undergraduate has the same question to face. He may be unable to make any large purchase, and may, instead, offer his own services to the government as soldier or sailor. But, where it is possible, let him make the effort to do what he can; however little, and thus show that he is alive to the situation. The Liberty Loan is the first big American war enterprise--he cannot afford to sit back placidly, and shift this financial burden onto the shoulders of his fellow-citizens...
...Army there is nothing to conceal or overcast a man's real nature. When fifty men are put in one kind of clothes and lined up to do close-order drill in an unindividualistic way, there is not much to hide the true from the false. The soldier is judged by his willingness, by his considerateness, by his courage. Those are a few of the qualities which go to make men, and by them men are judged without mistake...
Provisional Battalion: School of the Soldier and School of the Squad, pars. 51-100, 107-158, I. D. R., 8 hours; School of the Company, close order, pars. 159-198, I. D. R., 8 hours; School of the Company, extended order, pars. 199-257, I. D. R., 14 hours; Sighting Drills, pars. 13-31, Small Arms Firing Manual, 4 hours; Position and Aiming Drills, pars. 32-61, Small Arms Firing Manual, 8 hours; School of the Battalion, close order, pars. 258-289, I. D. R., 2 hours; Ceremonies, pars. 708-735, I. D. R., 2 hours; Inspection, company inspection, pars...
...number will be increased to 1500 or more. Commencing May 14, nine and one-half hours per day will be devoted to military instruction. The schedule is most comprehensive and the training will be thorough in every re- spect. It will include besides instruction in the School of the Soldier, Squad, Company, Battalion and Regiment, the actual construction of trenches, bomb proofs, machine gun positions, etc., similar to those actually used by the French Army on the western front; and also gallery and target practice, bayonet fencing, field exercises, practice marches and manoeuvres. A large corps of topographical instructors have...