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...battalion composed of four companies of recruits, each of which will be in the charge of a drill sergeant of the regular army, as follows: 1st Company, First Sergeant Boyd; 2nd Company, Sergeant Brown; 3rd Company, Sergeant Kennedy; 4th Company, Sergeant Lynch. In these companies provisional student non-commissioned officers will be appointed today. The four new companies will assemble on the west side of the Stadium at 9 o'clock...
...Squad, and 18 hours to the School of the Company, close order. Special attention will be paid during the drills to School of the Soldier and Squad movements, as well as to those in the School of the Company. For each of the provisional companies, acting non-commissioned officers will be selected...
...vaguely enough to be sure, a desire to think things through, to reject ready-made opinions for the mere reason that they were ready-made, to hold a little aloof from current lanes of thought. Such a spirit, only too rare in our land of gigantic uniformities, and almost non-existent in our colleges, gave one hope that here at least a leaven was working which would ultimately transform American thought from the flabby courageless thing it is into something new and liberating...
...hour; School of the Company--Close Order--pars. 172-198, 18 hours. (Special attention will be paid during company close order drill to the movements in the School of the Soldier and the School of the Squad, as well as to those in the School of the Company). Acting non-commissioned officers will be selected according to their previous experience and fitness for each of these provisional companies as follows: 1 1st Sergeant, 1 Supply Sergeant, 6 Sergeants, 1 Corporal for each squad...
...branches of the service for men to enter, for in rank it stands next to the Engineer Corps, and its work is most important and necessary to the nation in time of war. The requirements for commissions in this reserve are very high, but the only requirements for the non-commissioned are that the applicant be a citizen of the United States, between the ages of 18 and 45 years. A physical examination, such as is given for entrance to the R. O. T. C., will also be required for entrance to the Signal Corps...