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...Major Radcliffe Heermance, U. S. A., has assumed command of the Harvard S. A. T. C. unit relieving Colonel Williams, who at his own request has been transferred to more active service. Major Heermance was graduated from Williams College in 1904, and received the degree there in 1906, and later at Harvard in 1908, and Princeton in 1909. For the past ten years he has been a member of the faculty at the latter University, instructing in English and in Military Science and Tactics. After the establishment of the R. O. T. C. at Princeton he was an instructor...
Lieutenant-Colonel Wm. F. Flynn, who was commandant of the Harvard R. O. T. C. last year and last summer, has received his promotion from the rank of major. He is at present assigned as commandant of the S. A. T. C. of the State Agricultural College at Storrs, Connecticut...
...School of the Company in close order, and next week the schedule includes extended order and bayonet fighting. The bayonet work will be conducted according to the very latest British methods, as two members of the company attended the divisional bayonet school conducted by Captain Harrop and Sergeant-Major Richards of the British army at the S. A. T. C. Camp at Plattsburg this summer. Before outdoor drill is stopped by the weather, it is expected that the company will have finished the old extended order drill, and have started on the new American formations as taught this summer...
...Major C. L. Williams, son of Colonel C. A. Williams, the Commanding Officer of the University S. A. T. C. Unit, was born at Fort Lapwai, Idaho, in 1881. The first eighteen years of his life were spent at the different army posts in the United States where his father was stationed...
...Recently Major Williams made a two and one-half years' tour of the Philippine Islands. Upon his second return to the United States he was stationed at Fort Adams, Rhode Island. After a very short period there he was detailed to the Harvard S. A. T. C. Unit for the purpose of examining candidates for the artillery service and to act as assistant to his father, Colonel Williams...