Word: account
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...account of the continued delay of the War Department in deciding whether Harvard will have a training camp it is no longer feasible for the eligible men in the R. O. T. C. to wait. These men want to obtain the best military instruction the country offers in order to fit themselves to be officers of the first army of five hundred thousand. The system of officers' training camps which have already been authorized will give this. Since it is doubtful whether a federal camp is to be established in Cambridge, all those...
...have serious responsibilities to fulfill in return for the many privileges granted by the Government to which they have sworn allegiance. Although they have no more political or legal advantages than their countrymen occupied in other ways, they have, and will, respond immediately to the call of arms on account of the influence of their surroundings and education...
...remaining schedule of the University Glee Club has also been cancelled on account of the national situation. Concerts in New York and several cities around Cambridge, as well as the joint concert with the Cecelia Society in Symphony Hall, have been called off and a very successful season for the club brought to a close...
...made by lot after a certain amount of preliminary selections were made, only 80 men being needed. Should any of them fail to pass the required physical tests their places will be filled by the next in order on the drawing list. Of those rejected one-half was on account of defective eyesight or lack of mathematical training...
...letter received from J. S. Taylor '18, a former secretary and assistant managing editor of the CRIMSON, an interesting account of the work of the American Ambulance Corps, and especially of the University members of the Corps, is given. Taylor reports that the University contingent that left for France last February is already hard at work on the western front. N. Wainwright '19 and K. Merrick '19 have been transferred from their original sections to Section 8, which did such gallant work during the heavy fighting at Verdun in May and June of last year. Taylor, together with...