Word: going
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...received a letter from Major-General George Barnett of the United States Marines, announcing that University graduates who can show by certificate that they have satisfactorily completed all military science work here, will be eligible for commissions as first or second lieutenants in the Marine Corps. The men will go into an officers' training camp for three months soon after the end of this college year. If they fall to qualify they will be required to serve as enlisted men in the Marines...
...problem of what is going to be done with June camp men for the rest of this month has now been partly solved. As it is not stated how many men will be taken, all who can should sign up at once. Those who go to Devens will have a course as valuable as any that has yet been offered...
...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...
...sixty-eight have been chosen because they have worked conscientiously and because the Tactical Staff believe them to be worthy of the great trials which are to come. They may go "over" as privates, they may be given commissions very soon, but whatever happens to them they are objects of envy to those of us who are doomed to wait until we too become of age. They are departing on the "Great Adventure"; we are still training for that opportunity...
...athletic status of men who have taken the special finals and are waiting to go to the June under-age camp, will also be settled if possible at tonight's meeting. It is likely that the committee will, in addition, discuss the success of athletics as carried on this spring, and will consider their advisability of continuing a similar program next year...