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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...afternoon the University R. O. T. C., organized into two new American companies, will carry out a combat exercise at Fresh Pond before the University Board of Overseers, who are to hold a stated and special two-days' meeting in Cambridge today and tomorrow. The maneuvers are scheduled to begin at 4 o'clock, but the different companies will fall in at their regular places to march to the trenches at 2.30 o'clock...
Members of the University R. O. T. C. assigned to the June Camp will assemble under arms in the Stadium on Monday morning at 8 o'clock to begin an intensive course of preparatory training. In addition to this special work, they will also continue to participate in all exercises of the Regiment...
Twelve men have been selected to take the special training in grenades and bayonet work which will begin Monday at Camp Devens. They will stay at the cantonment until the end of May. One half of this quota will specialize in the grenade instruction, which is to be given by Lieutenant Mallet of the French Military Mission, and the other men will concentrate upon bayonet exercises under Captain Goodday, of the British Mission. All of the men will receive training in the Hebert system of physical training. The corps will pay for their subsistence, since they are in reality members...
...have more men. Let us have more camps and cantonments. Let us begin to build them now and speed them to completion with all the boasted American energy and drive. It takes three months to build a cantonment. It takes from six to eight months to make men into soldiers ready to go overseas. We must make our plans now for next year...
...should reconsider our plans now. We should double them now. We should begin to make ready as many more cantonments, as many more camps, as much more equipment and clothing, and supplies as we now have--and we should...