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With regard to the Plattsburg Camp, the Government has announced that the number of applications for the camp from New England colleges has so far been greatly below the quota they had expected to send to the camp. The Commanding General of the Northeastern Department has been authorized to fill a quota of 850 men. Of this number only about one-half had enrolled at a late date last week
...Marine Flying Force operates in conjunction with the Navy, but it flies only land machines at this time and no change to seaplanes is anticipated. A small number of application blanks, and further details about enrollment, may be obtained at the CRIMSON Office, or by mail from Major-General Commandant, U. S. Marine Headquarters, Washington...
...also to many others interested in the University Corps. Although it seemed for a time as though Army officials had seen fit to recognize the comprehensive two years' work of the Harvard Corps as equivalent to the four years' course prescribed for R. O. T. C. units in General Order 49, 1916, it is now apparent that this was not their intention. We can not criticize the War Department for their action, for the necessity of maintaining a single standard for all colleges is obvious; we can only regret that men who have had the benefits of training more extensive...
...little doubt; officer-candidates from the Unisity have always led in infantry O. T. C.'s and the men formerly classed as Quota A are men above the former standard. If they feel themselves underestimated it would be well for them to recall the words of a famous American General, who remarked, when detailed to the obscurity of a Kansas cantonment, "I am a soldier; I go where I am ordered...
...latest announcement of the War Department concerning the work of the college R. O. T. C.'s next year, as reprinted in another column from yesterday's Boston papers, brings practical results, it will be a cause of general satisfaction. By this plan, every college with an enrollment of over 100 will have a training unit, recognized, equipped, and officered by the War Department. Students will not be required to join, but when they do they will be regularly enlisted and subject to the call of the President. Only the gravest emergency, however, will bring a call before an undergraduate...