Word: governors
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Orders have been received from Headquarters, Eastern Department, Governor's Island, appointing Captain Cordier chairman of the committee for the examination of applicants for commissions in the Officers' Reserve Corps in the Boston District. All applicants for commissions must appear before and pass examination set by this committee before being recommended to the War Department. Captain William S. Bowen, C. A. C., assistant commandant of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps, is also a member of the committee...
Order from Governor's Island...
...order from Governor's Island is as follows...
...competent drill sergeant will probably be in charge of the instruction for the first few days, it is planned to have the drilling later under the directions of the students who are preparing for the officers' reserve corps. At a meeting held on Monday, Major Cochran a member of Governor Whitman's staff assembled all Columbia students who have had military training in the National Guard, at a Plattsburg camp, or at West Point. Drilling began Monday afternoon, when a squad of 25 such men started a course of training which will fit them to lead a battalion of students...
...York state and the country at large are to be congratulated on the prompt and wise execution of the Slater-Welsh law, passed by our far seeing legislators, under the guidance of Governor Whitman. The early fulfillment by Dr. Finley of the promise of the military training commission, created by the Slater bill, that "military training, would become part of a later program outside the schools," is warrant for the future development of a high order of disciplined youth in our state schools. New York...