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...complete description of the new location for the summer R. O. T. C. camp at Edgewood, Maryland, was recently received by the Military Department of the University. Originally the camp was to be situated on Montauk Point, Long Island, but there was some difficulty in getting a location and the War Department was therefore forced to change its plans. The camp now decided on will be situated on the reservation of the Edgewood Arsenal, the permanent post and proving grounds of the Chemical Warfare Department. A large portion of the territory is taken up by the chemical plants, railroads...
...vessel which has been renamed the "Harvard" is 240 feet long and has a speed of about 20 knots. She will carry two two-pound guns, two one-pound guns, and a three-inch gun, and will patrol the coast, 150 miles out, from Barnegat, N. J., to Montauk Point, Long Island, N. Y. The undergraduate portion of the "Harvard's" complement will be composed of the following men: J. A. Burden '20, Russell Cobb '19, Haley Fiske '19, O. F. Flynn '19, L. K. Garrison '19, J. L. Leighton '19, E. S. Sherman '19, P. E. Stevenson...
...fleet of nine ships was mobilized at Montauk, on the eastern end of Long Island, and on August 20 proceeded to Black Island, where the Volunteer Blue Fleet was organized, which attempted to prevent the landing of 40,000 men by the Red Fleet somewhere north of Cape Hatteras. Twenty torpedo boats, together with colliers, supply ships, submarines and an aeroplane completed the fleet. The torpedo boats were sent out to scout for the enemy, and reported its location east of New Jersey, whither the battleships were sent. After several minor fights the Blues were defeated in a large engagement...
Among the "Other Verses" the "Two Answers to Why I Read Herrick" and "Montauk Point" illustrate the range of Mr. Garrison's serious work. "Manque," which ends the volume, is extremely fine and belies its own estimate of its author's muse. As for us we believe in the promise contained in itself, and expect greater things from the last of our Harvard poets...