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...Captain Cordier made the statement last night that new enrolments for the Reserve Officers' Training Corps would begin in a few days, based on the vote of the Faculty yesterday afternoon. It is impossible to start the enlistment immediately, for certain necessary arrangements must be made before the work can be started. Due announcement of the opening of the enrolment office will be made through the CRIMSON. New men who come into the Training Corps will follow the schedule of nine hours a week now prescribed until May 7, when the entire time of all the cadets will be devoted...
...Captain Cordier further stated that it was intended to increase the present Corps to 2,000 men. Special provisions are to be made for the enrolment of recent graduates of Harvard University, who, on September 1 next, will be under 32 years of age. No new men under 19 years of age will be accepted. It will be necessary for all new members of the Corps to undergo a strict physical examination by Dr. Lee, and no men who are unfit for service will be allowed to enroll. In addition, these men now in the service who are physically unable...
...Soldiers Field where they will drill by battalions for a short time. At 5.30 o'clock they will be drawn up with the band in line of masses in the Stadium, and the retreat ceremony will be held, after which the battalions will pass in review before Captain Cordier and the military staff. This occasion will give the public the first opportunity to see the Training Corps drill together. Seats on the west side of the Stadium will be found the most advantageous...
...interview yesterday afternoon Captain Cordier made the following statement in regard to informal sports of this nature...
...Captain Cordier stated yesterday that there was to be a special Faculty meeting on Tuesday next, at which time it was to be proposed that next enrolments in the Reserve Officers' Training Corps be permitted immediately. If the Faculty authorizes this increase, with academic allowances, the students who join will be accepted only after a thorough physical examination, and they will be required to take such additional instruction under arms and in sections as the Commandant may prescribe in order to make up the work covered by the advanced classes...