Word: combativeness
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With close order drill mastered to a certain extent the Reserve Officers' Training Corps of the University has for the last few days turned its time to extended order movements and combat exercises. In the first two battalions this work has comprised skirmish drills and sham engagements between troops, under the supervision of the French officers, while in the provisional battalion the men are being trained in the elementary evolutions of the open order, and also in the principles of fire control and the management of the rifle...
...drills of the last two weeks have brought the first two battalions to a high point of efficiency in this department, and their work in parade is excellent. Having acquired this proficiency, these companies will devote the greater part of their time from now on to open order and combat exercises...
...Battalions: School of the Company, extended order, pars, 199-257, I. D. R., 24 hours; School of the Battalion, close order, pars, 258-289, I. D. R., 4 hours; School of the Battalion, combat principles, pars. 42 and 290-326, I. D. R., 8 hours; Ceremonies, pars. 708-735, I. D. R., 6 hours; Signalling, arm and flag signals, pars. 43-47, I. D. R., 4 hours; Inspection, company inspection, pars. 745-748 (omitting part applying to equipment) I. D. R., 2 hours...
Word has been received from Paris that Ronald Wood Hoskier '18, of the American Esquadrille of the French Flying Corps now serving in France, was killed in an aerial combat last Tuesday. He was a corporal, and had on repeated occasions distinguished himself for daring and brilliancy of operation. During the offensive that is now in progress, Hoskier engaged a German "Taube" and was seen to fall with his airplane, landing within the German lines...
...Congressman Flood's resolution, and by this action it will be fulfilling the ardent desire of every patriotic citizen. After the formal declaration will come the call for five hundred thousand volunteers, additional recruits for the navy, and then the marshalling of the nation's resources for the successful combat against the Hohenzollern government of Germany...