Word: program
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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With the exception of a few minor details arrangements for this year's Class Day week have been finally completed. Practically the same program as in former years will be carried out, but the establishment of a training camp at the University will lend a new militaristic tone and add greatly to the exercises from a spectacular viewpoint...
...ushers will be members of the Junior Class in the R. O. T. C., and will be in uniform, while other members of the corps will probably assist in the events during graduation week. With the exception of the review, a feature which has been added since the program was first published, the plans for Class Day week have not been changed...
...Commencement program for this year, at Yale includes all the important official features customary in the past. The baccalaureate address, the conferring of degrees, the alumni luncheon, the alumni meeting, the university reception, the 1492 Dinner, etc., are to be held exactly as usual. The most important change is in connection with the exercises of Tuesday afternoon, when a patriotic celebration has been substituted for the usual intercollegiate baseball game. The main features of this celebration are to consist of an assembly of the Graduates on the campus, a military parade, followed by the graduates marching in procession to various...
...military office yesterday. Inclosed in the announcement was an official denial of the rumor that the French officers are to leave Harvard. The six French officers detailed for service here will continue in their work at Cambridge, it was asserted, until the completion of the comprehensive program of instruction planned for the University Corps. Captain Cordier, as well as Captains Bowen and Shannon and the various non-commissioned officers of the Regular Army now on duty here will also remain with the University throughout the period of intensive training...
...With the assistance of the French and American officers the original program of training will be carried out. About 1000 men are now enrolled in the Corps, and the number will be increased to 1500 or more. Commencing May 14, nine and one-half hours per day will be devoted to military instruction. The schedule is most comprehensive and the training will be thorough in every re- spect. It will include besides instruction in the School of the Soldier, Squad, Company, Battalion and Regiment, the actual construction of trenches, bomb proofs, machine gun positions, etc., similar to those actually used...