Word: presidio
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Dates: during 1913-1913
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Although the War Department has decided not to carry out the plan of embarking students on battleships this summer, two military camps will be established, one at Gettysburg National Park, from July 7 to August 29, inclusive, and the other at the Presidio of Monterey, California, from July 1 to August 29 inclusive. Their object is to increase the present inadequate personnel of the trained military reserve of the United States by a class of men from whom, in time of a national emergency, a large proportion of the commissioned officers may be drawn. Aside from this, the camps will...
Meanwhile the War Department has decided to hold two camps this summer, one at the Gettysburg National Park, Pennsylvania, from July 7 to August 29, inclusive, and the other at the Presidio of Monterey, California, from July 1 to August 29 inclusive, for the military instruction of college students. It is hoped that the men who signed up for the battleship cruise, and many others besides, will sign up for this camp work. Names should be sent to A. J. Lowrey '13, Holworthy 5. Further particulars will be printed later...