Word: drilling
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Also artillery would be easier to teach at the University. There would be more work in the classroom and less on the drill field. In all probability, guns could be obtained from the War Department and practical instruction could be carried on with these...
...infantry close order drill is the fundamental part of military training. Better than anything else it imbues the spirit of discipline. It offers a groundwork on which to build. Therefore we suggest that the first year's training be devoted chiefly to infantry close order and the following years to an intensive study of heavy and field artillery...
...addition to the regular drill, all the men have four daily classes, in navigation, regulations, ordnance, and seamanship. There is also an evening study-hour of one hour and a half in Widener Library. Reveille is at 5.45 and taps at 9.30, and the men have hardly any time off during...
...where sudden necessity was the mother of many makeshifts, with a sound system that will become as much a part of the University as English A and the Freshman Dormitories. It is probable that this program will provide for a concentration of all field work and drill in the summer, with only classes during the rest of the year. It is also more than probable that guns and caissons will find a place in the Harvard Regiment, and that "Left two zero, down five, three thousand" may be understood by the future undergraduate. These plans must be formulated slowly, carefully...
...Corps, but the War Department will make changes in the details of its operation. Not only will instruction in infantry be offered, but also colleges will be encouraged to develop artillery, engineer, signal corps and other units. An effort is being made, supported by President Lowell, to concentrate the drill and field work in summer camps of approximately six weeks' duration, and to devote that part of the work which would come during term time to lectures and class room work. The establishment of a field artillery unit here is favored because this branch lends itself most readily to such...