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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Control of Princeton. The principle feature of these plans, in comparison with those originally-submitted, is the change in the length of time during which the camp will last. It was expected that the course of instruction would have duration for a period of ten weeks, but under the present arrangements the camp will last only for eight weeks. It will extend from June 25 to August 18. This will lower the fee from $115 to $80. An additional fee of $20 will be charged, however, for subsistence, uniform, books, and apparatus. Thus the total cost for the eight weeks...
...program of the camp will, according to the present arrangements, consist of drill, study talks, actual practice as non-commissioned officers, at least one hour each day of physical work, bayonet and setting-up exercises, individual instruction in the details of rifle shooting and the use of semaphore codes, topography, marches, trench warfare, lecture and black-board talks on the theory of military tactics...
...account of climatic considerations. In general, qualifications for admission to these camps will be the same as for the first series, but an effort will be made to obtain men at least 31 years of age, and the number admitted to training will be smaller than in the present camps...
...drivers, clerks, and mechanics for two weeks or more under Major E. E. Persons of the Medical Corps. These men will sail for France immediately upon the completion of work in this country. The unit is composed of 39 men, all but two of whom are either graduates, or present members of the University. These men are to report at room 617, 25 Huntington Avenue, Boston, this afternoon at 2 P. M. for instructions as to the hour of their departure and commutation of subsistence...
...final figures of the enlistment office when it closed today showed that at present there are 1,250 men in the Corps. Of this number, 797 were University students at the time of their enrolment; 99 came from the alumni; outside colleges contributed 202; and the balance of 152 men are non-collegians. The men from other colleges represent 54 different institutions and universities of the East...