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...speech of Major Azan last evening was especially of interest at this time, when vague reports of disruption are being scattered. The assurance was given in that speech of the desire of the French mission to do its utmost in training American officers competent for the fierce efficiency of the fighting line. The assurance was given also that the mission feels especially eager to train those officers in so far as it may in the Harvard Corps...
...temptation was obvious for these men, accustomed to action and eager for the utmost service in the consecrated cause of their native land, to feel that in training a group of unskilled young men here, however willing were those young men, and however great was the need of training, they had been relegated to the less exciting and less glorious post of war. Yet with large vision and broad sympathy they saw the needs and the possibilities of the lessons which they might teach, and have worked without rest in the teaching...
...departure of these regular army officers must bring home to every mind the fact that there is a singular shortage of such men in the United States. And with this the corollary that an enormous number must soon be found or made, if our country is to put her utmost into this war, and we earnestly believe she is. Where are our officers coming from? Secretary Baker who surely ought to be in a place to know answers this query plainly in his letter to President Lowell. They are coming from just such groups of men as that which...
...greatly impressed with the Military Department of Harvard University in every respect, and I believe that the work that is going on in the Regiment is of the utmost importance. The intensive training is being carried on with the greatest keenness, and the close order work and marching of the Regiment at the review was of the highest order and could only be surpassed by the cadets of the United States Military Academy at West Point...
...every home would emerge the embattled citizens, and foreign soldiers would melt before their aroused wrath like the milky way before the sun. For the sake of truth, which is always a prosaic busybody, we must admit that occasionally the embattled citizens failed to defend their castles with the utmost skill, and the foreign soldiery refused to melt at the psychological moment. However, excepting such minor failures, a like scheme of war was a locally tremendously successful campaign...