Word: goetze
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...gratifying results of the war" said Col. Goetz last night to a CRIMSON reporter, "is the enthusiasm throughout the entire country among colleges and universities toward military training in the future. Among the great lessons learned from our gigantic preparation for the world war were the experiences that men obtained in the officers' training camps. It was learned very early in the war that not much training could be given in three months, the time allotted to each camp. These camps might have been more appropriately called selection, or selection-and-training camps, as in every camp...
...Colonel Goetz emphasized especially the fact that the coming R. O. T. C. will be different from that of the past in that it will not interfere with other studies and activities but will be a group of academic courses, and that it will take for granted as far as possible that the principles of infantry drill, interior guard duty and small arms firing will have been previously learned...
Colonel Robert C. F. Goetz, field artillery, arrived in Cambridge yesterday morning to make preliminary arangements for the establishment of an artillery unit at the University. He conferred with President Lowell, Dean Yeomans, and acting-dean C. N. Greenough, but would not comment for the present on the intended unit. "After I have become more acquainted with the situation here I shall be glad to discuss my plans," said Colonel Goetz yesterday to a CRIMSON reporter, "but all I have to say now is that I am very enthusiastic about the prospects of organizing an artillery unit at Harvard...
...Colonel Goetz graduated from West Point in 1909. He was made a first lieutenant in 1916 and a captain in May, 1917. Then he received a rapid series of promotions, being commissioned major in June, 1918, lieutenant-colonel in August, and colonel in October, 1918. After his graduation from West Point Colonel Goetz was stationed principally in the west, and from 1912 to 1917 he served in Honolulu and Panama. Since the beginning of the war he has been engaged in military instruction duty, and was last assigned to Camp Jackson, S. C. His home is in Cape Girardeau, Missouri...
Princeton and Cornell have organized Field Artillery units. Brigadier-General Robert M. Danford adds: "During the coming week Colonel R. C. F. Goetz will go to Cambridge to organize a Harvard battery, . . . . It is hoped and expected that about twelve or fifteen of our largest universities will accept the invitation to undertake Field Artillery courses...