Word: joined
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...these examinations will last two hours except those scheduled for Wednesday morning, May 29, Friday morning, May 31, and Saturday morning, June 1, which will be three hours. These special examinations are held for students who have recently given notice to the Military Headquarters that they expect to join the Junior Training Camp at Plattsburg, which begins on Monday, June 3. Students taking these early final examinations will not be required to attend their college exercises during the period of these examinations...
...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 reaches the age of twenty...
...artillery is to be included, and a new separate course in Surveying, Topography, and Military Mapping. There is, moreover, the significant announcement that "no drills will be included in the hours devoted to courses in Military Science and Tactics; but all students enrolled in them will be required to join the Harvard R. O. T. C. Regiment and to participate in all drills and exercises which may be ordered for that organization." This appears to indicate a stiffening of the military requirements which should remove any doubts regarding the seriousness of this branch of study as such...
...class for instruction in the Hebert System of physical training, to be held at 7.30 to 8.30 A. M., May 6 to 10, inclusive, under Captain Alexander Kendall at the Stadium, is being formed. Members of the Harvard R. O. T. C. may join by signing at Headquarters not later than Saturday noon...
Another chance to join the June under age camps has been offered to undergraduates. According to a letter from the Adjutant General's office published in another column, the War Department will still receive applications for these camps. The Military Office should not fail to verify this news immediately and enroll any additional men who may want to go. There is already a long list of "alternates" filed at Headquarters, and many who did not enroll before April 28 may now find it possible to join. Whatever may have been the reasons for their holding back last week, no difficulties...