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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...exhibition of the Reserve Officers Training Unit on Soldiers Field yesterday afternoon was worthy of the highest commendation. The Unit was organized but two months ago, and has been drilling under arms only a little over one month, yet in practically every movement the formations were executed with the snap and precision that usually comes of longer training. The only blot on an otherwise impressive review was the small army of obnoxious street urchins who persisted in making themselves conspicuously objectionable. Captain Cordier and his officers are to be congratulated, for the splendid showing made yesterday augurs well...
...Reserve Officers Training Corps went through its first drill as a unit and its first regimental review on Soldiers Field yesterday afternoon and showed by its excellent appearance and well executed manoeuvers that the time spent in drilling the last two months has been well spent. It is true that the company fronts were not as even as they might have been and occasionally a corporal or a platoon leader would so disarrange his unit as to cause a moment's confuson, but taken all in all the performance was most creditable for so early in the year...
...Despite this fact that Regents refused to authorize compulsory training. Up to a month ago there were only 100 men drilling, but now there are over 1,200. The drilling, however, is informal and there are no regular hours. The Regents have recently authorized a unit of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps under General Order 49. All that is now wanting is arrangements for instructors, etc., by the War Department. It is hoped that Washington will take all necessary action for the establishment of the unit soon. It will be modelled on the Harvard plan and a much larger number...
Students and graduates of the Medical School have formed three hospital units under the Red Cross, to be taken over by the army in case of need. These units are established at the Massachusetts General Hospital, the Boston City Hospital, and the Medical School, and are known as Base Hospitals Nos. 5, 6 and 7. In the Medical School Unit are enrolled 33 second-year medical students, 20 from the third year and two from the fourth year. Dr. Harvey Cushing, M.D. '95, Moseley Professor of Surgery, is in charge of the unit...
Captain Shannon also stated that he knew of no plans for the establishment of a cavalry unit here. "There are very considerable obstacles in the way of organizing such a unit. Besides getting the appropriations from the Government for the purchase and maintenance of horses, stables, etc., I know of no suitable grounds on which to drill. I do not believe that Soldiers Field could be utilized for cavalry drill because the horses would soon cut the ground to pieces...