Word: camped
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...make such entertainment readily available for all soldiers is one of the most important duties of the War Commission for Training Camp Activities, and this work must be continued and extended...
...Department would do well to give favorable consideration to the suggestion of the Harvard CRIMSON that an all-college-officers' training camp be established this summer. The idea clearly contains merit. Hundreds of college men, now below the draft age, would welcome the opportunity to devote the long vacation to intensive preparation for military service of a kind still greatly needed. To students in those institutions which now have no R. O. T. C. the plan would be particularly attractive, because it would enable them to get a training which conditions at their own colleges force them to forego...
...Harvard's camp of last summer was popular and valuable, why wouldn't a camp established on much broader lines, and conceivably of much larger efficiency, be still more popular and valuable? In asking this question there is neither attempt nor desire to minimize the great service which Harvard has rendered the nation. The men it educated at the Fresh Pond trenches and at Barre made an excellent showing at the subsequent Plattsburg, and they are making an even better showing today as officers in the National Army. But Harvard's camp was an infantry camp to train infantry officers...
...Army authorities at Camp Devens will co-operate with the staff of the University R. O. T. C. during the coming month by sending a number of officers, members of the British and French Missions at Devens, to deliver a course of lectures before the members of both of the military courses in the University. Lieutenant Colonel Edward Croft, Director of Schools at the cantonment, in a conference with members of the University military staff last Sunday expressed the hope that the relations between the R. O. T. C. and the officers at Devens, once begun would grow stronger...
...permanent theatre, seating 3,000, has been built in each National Army cantonment. Two chautauqua tents, seating 1,800 each, have been erected in each National Guard camp.--SMILEAGE NEWS...