Marston School - Howler Yearbook (Baltimore, MD)

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Then came the uniforms. No regular body of? soldiers can put up a real appearance without uniforms. At least so the general staff seemed to think, for a man came up l'rom the New York Clothing House and took our measurements for uniforms. Then he disap- peared for a while, but upon his return it was announced that each man could go down to the New York Vlothing House and get his u11i- form, for it was iinished. Wie got an olive drab woolen suit otf regu- lar army cut, with canvas puttees and visored cap. Wie surely were military looking when we had the first drill in uniform. Things ra11 very smoothly now for quite a while. As you may know the I'oly cadets drill at the armory the same afternoons we do. 'When we first arrived there upon the scene it seemed that we would never be able to attain the perfection of these seeming veterans. 'Phe first couple of' afternoons when we drilled we used little wooden guns. As we executed the manual. of arms in sight ot' any Poly cadets we could 110t help seeing the corners of more than one mouth round out into a grin illlll many eyes twinkle. Really, l believe there were just as many of us who smiled at our pieces. l have since obtained this formula for making one of our rifles: 'l'ake a 0119-l1ll'il board, rough, and saw out a shape of' a gun. lVhen this is finished you should have a thing like this: A one-inch square wooden barrel about two teet long at one end of' which is a stock about one and a half feet long widening from the one-inch to about three at the end. At the junc- ture of the barrel and stock is a luunp on the top and bottom repre- senting trigger guard illltl bolt mechanism, we guess. Many grimaces were made as a splinter would seek a hiding place in one's hand: but otherwise we learned the manual of' arms. Soon we abandoned these pieces and devoted the whole time to foot movements. On every XVednesday afternoon Hodell gave us oral lectures on the movements. NVe copied down and made notes ol' it illlll finally 11ad the exact way- to execute the movements. lt was upon these notes that the examinations for officers were given. 'l'hey turned out with the results aforementioned. Of' course it took these otlicers a, little time to get worked into their new positions, but now they have caught on very well and we believe we have a fine company. lVe demonstrated our ability a.t the exhibi- tion and won great applause. We are learning new movements all The time, we now use regular rifies and will soon be l'ershing's body- guard or something like that.

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