As well as numerous other forms for special occasions which are not here listed. Except for the morning report, sick report, duty roster, correspondence book and various files, practically all the afore-mentioned records are now kept at regimental headquarters instead of in the company orderly room. CHAPTER 14. Conferences. (Time--2 hours each day in afternoon.) 1. Know your subject and be thoroughly prepared. 2. Have an outline to refer to, showing main points you wish to cover. 3. Do not allow a man to give an entire chapter in reply to a question. Make your questions short and specific--and require answers to be the same. 4. Get every man on his feet at least once every day. 5. Have a laugh every little while--keep the men awake. 6. Vary your system of calling on men so that no one will know when he is likely to be called on. 7. Avoid reading to the men. 8. Require men to put things on the blackboard when possible. 9. In case of a conference for which no time has been given for preparation, use all possible schemes to get the points home without having either a lecture or a study period. Allot--a definite time and require definite results--_e.g._, allow 10 minutes for a rough map showing the placing of a picket--15 minutes for an outline of a certain chapter, etc. 10. Never forget that there are 2 sides to every conference--what you plan to give and what you plan to get. You must test the men to see how well they know the work but you must also make sure that every man knows it when he goes out even if he didn't when he came in. Study. The study period usually comes after a full day in the open, and the warm air and artificial light soon make the most ardent soldier doze off into cat-naps. Something must be done to counteract these influences and keep the men on the job. The terror of the next day's conference will not do it, as that time seems safely distant, with all night ahead. Assign the men three to five questions on the work to be studied, which will be asked in conference and which require a pretty general knowledge of the subject. Every man will then have a definite objective and a certain minimum of attainment for the evening. Or reverse the process and let each of the class write several questions about what they have studied. The following day let these questions, with the names of the men who asked them, be read before the class and answered. The effect of reading the name of the writer is to insure careful preparation of the question and study of the subject. A good question can hardly be asked without a basis of knowledge, and a foolish question condemns its author.