Word: strictness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Yale Naval Unit is so far the largest established. At present the enrolment in the S. A. T. C. is divided as follows: artillery, 600; naval unit, 500; laboratory corps, 300; signal corps, 200; and medical unit about 100. The university's exactions of the entering student are as strict as ever and it has declined to admit any who have not passed the college entrance board examinations...
...psychological moment came Colonel Applin, and in his opportune arrival the Corps has certainly shown improvement in the respects he criticized. But the time has been short, and it will be hard to remember everything this afternoon. Every hand raised in ranks and every infraction of strict discipline will be an illuminating commentary on our former laxity and a lesson for next year. For our experience has shown us that it takes more than two weeks, however intense, to build up any real discipline...
Colonel Applin emphasized the need of having strict distinctions between officers, non-commissioned officers and privates, in order to carry discipline to the extent necessary...
...Need For Strict Discipline...
Lastly, this is a good opportunity for you to apply to yourselves that strict discipline which is the first duty of a soldier. Your nation asks you to stay, when you would like to go: a sacrifice of your personal inclinations. I come back, you see, again and again, to the idea that I never tire of repeating...