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Major-General Leonard Wood, U.S.A., President Lowell, and Major H. L. Higginson '55 addressed the members of the University Regiment assembled in uniform at the Union yesterday evening and officially started the lecture series to the 1100 student volunteers. Captain Cordier introduced General Wood, who has just returned from a trip in the South for the purpose of extending the movement toward preparedness...
General Wood stated that the work of the Regiment so far has been eminently satisfactory. In establishing military training as a course counting toward a degree, the University is the first to adopt a policy which will ultimately be recognized in every other college. Yale, Dartmouth, and Williams have formed strong student military organizations, and the present plan to recruit a corps of 50,000 officers will most likely be carried through successfully...
General Wood has continually shown great interest in the Regiment and is coming to Boston from New York after a trip in the South for the special purpose of speaking this afternoon. He is keeping in touch with the progress of the Regiment and firmly believes that its success will have far-reaching effects upon the preparedness movement, especially among other colleges...
...members of the Regiment are expected to attend this lecture in uniform and should assemble in the Union at 5 o'clock. No attempt will, however, be made to arrange the Regiment by companies as had previously been thought desirable...
Major-General Leonard Wood, U. S. Army, will address the Regiment this evening. For this purpose the Regiment will assemble, in uniform, in the Union, at 5 o'clock. C. CORDIER, Capt. U. S. Army, Commanding...