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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...office for furnishing information and conducting examinations is at 45 Bow street, Major Williams, U. S. A. in charge...
Lieutenant-Colonel James A. Shannon, member of General Pershing's staff, and formerly military commander of the R. O. T. C. at the University, is mentioned in the casuality lists of last Monday as killed in action. During the spring and summer of 1917 Colonel Shannon, then major, was in charge of the military program here, and was a member of the Faculty. It will be remembered that when he was transferred to an overseas division, the University regiment marched in a body to his home on Mercer Circle and presented him with several gifts, among which were a saddle...
...members of the company, however, will be distinct from that of the S. A. T. C. The students will be under different instructors, and during the fall, at least, will not train with the senior corps. Two officers of the Massachusetts State Guard, Captain W. H. Rand '88 and Major De Mille are now acting as instructors, and it is probable that two more officers from the same organization will soon be assigned to teach the students under 18 years of age. Major Joseph Warren '97 and Captain F. W. Rogers of the University R. O. T. C. of last...
...Major Williams, son of Colonel Williams, commandant of the S. A. T. C., has been detailed to Cambridge to handle the applications for the Officers' Training Schools which will pass through Headquarters. Since all applications for admittance to an Officers' School must be made to the War Department through the office of the nearest S. A. T. C. unit, Major Williams will be in charge of applications from many men other than those attending the University. The S. A. T. C. Headquarters has received instructions to hold up applications for the infantry, but to proceed as usual with those...
...Major Williams started his work yesterday with a personal examination of each applicant for the different officers' camps. Each man who applied was given an appointment for a five-minute interview. The work will continue today until completed; each man who put in an O. T. C. application at Apthorp House should find out immediately when his appointment comes and be on hand at that time...