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...improvement in the organization and discipline of the companies as well as to the character of the terrain around Barre, these exercises were made the most instructive feature of the course. Map sketching continued under Professor J. E. Wolfe and his assistants, and Captain Leslaby, the University fencing coach, was in charge of the bayonet work...
Through the kindness of the Oakley Country Club the R. O. T. C. has secured the privilege of using the extensive club grounds and parts of the surrounding country for map sketching. Both the location and the terrain of this section of the country are especially suited to the purpose, and the two companies each day which are doing map sketching, are making profitable us of these grounds...
...time-march has taken second place to the more exacting sport of rushing imaginary trenches under an imaginary "hail of death" (as the war correspondents always describe it). The cinder-heaps are hills, the grass is forests, the fence is a wall of China, and the whole land is "terrain." A man may be a squad, a squad a company, and a company a regiment. In such Lilliputian measure do we play at war, seeing how armies move and battles...
According to the plan of the present course all the fundamental close order and extended order drill will be learned before the summer training begins. During July and August the entire time can be devoted to instruction in the problems of terrain and the command of troops in fighting formations. The advantage of men joining the unit now rather than later cannot be urged too strongly. Some comment has been made about Military Science 1 counting as a half-course. Since every half-course in College is theoretically supposed to require nine hours' work including lectures, there is no reason...
...Battery A and form the Plattsburg men who took the artillery course there. The purpose of the school is to train men for officers of artillery and to give them practice in fire control and the handling of battery. The instruction in the armory will be with a terrain board and blackboard, and when spring comes there will be supplementary outside work. Anyone who has found that joining Battery A would take too much of his time and who has had some military experience may become a member by reporting tonight to Captain Swaim...