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...High Command of Harvard has started its fall drive. The marks of the hour examinations in the military art are little by little becoming known and the grade of "deficient" is now the watchword in the basement of University...
...captains and top-sergeants will now condole with each other as they stand at attention in the rear rank. To have blown first sergeant's call once to often or to have put an extra mule in the field kitchen,--such mistakes brand a man as being unworthy of command...
...advantages in such a change would be great. Many men have spent two and even three summers under military discipline; many who have only been in last summer's corps could easily command a company. The belief that there are only twelve men in college fit to command a large unit or to act as supply and top sergeants is unsound and untenable. The men now training here should be given every possible opportunity to exercise leadership. If some are fit for captaincies and the rank of the higher sergeant positions, there is no valid reason for preventing them...
Practice in military ceremonies will begin on Thursday morning, when the First Battalion will have a battalion parade at its regular drill hour under the command of Major C. C. Lane '04. The third battalion will do the same work Friday afternoon, and the second Saturday morning. On all three occasions the regimental band, led by Chief Musician Carmichael, will be present...
...regiment faced a fresh task, after many of their "veterans" had been called to the colors, and when hundreds of entering freshmen had come up for training. The work of organization and training advanced with despatch and efficiency, as it well could, with experience as it had at command and with such a corps of instructors. Eleven hundred students, nearly the half of all Harvard's enrollment, have joined the regiment's ranks. Today, when they greeted the Secretary of War, they were already prepared to pass before him not alone in the polite ritual of the formal reviewing drill...