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...Friday afternoon, April 13, the first regimental drill of the year will be held in the Stadium. The companies will assemble at 3.30 o'clock and will march to Soldiers Field where they will drill by battalions for a short time. At 5.30 o'clock they will be drawn up with the band in line of masses in the Stadium, and the retreat ceremony will be held, after which the battalions will pass in review before Captain Cordier and the military staff. This occasion will give the public the first opportunity to see the Training Corps drill together. Seats...
...addition to Dean Gay, have already been selected. A. W. Shaw of Chicago will head the board as chairman, and Wallace D. Simmons, president of the Simmons Hardware Company of St. Louis is the third member of the commission. The other two members will be appointed in a short time, and Dr. Hollis Godfred, president of the Drexel Institute and member of the advisory commission of the Council of National Defence, also will serve on the board as an additional member...
...enlisted recruits, and then those who demonstrate that they will make good officers, are sent to a cadet school for six or seven months of intensive training. Men who have completed the course in these cadet schools are put in command of reserve troops in England for a short period before being sent to the front...
Arrangements have been completed whereby the Reserve Officers' Training Corps will have for use in a very short time a thousand Springfield rifles in place of the Krag-Jorgensens in use at present. The Corps is very fortunate to be able to secure these new guns at the present time, for there is a heavy demand for them from military organizations throughout the country, and in addition every available weapon will be needed for the new army which the Government will raise. It is expected that the rifles will be delivered by the time the R. O. T. C. goes...
Another picture of the Senior Class will be taken on the steps of Widener, Tuesday, at 1 o'clock. Because of the international situation, which may require large numbers of undergraduates to leave College at short notice, the usual photographs of the class and of the Freshmen were taken Monday, several weeks earlier than last year, and as a result the Seniors were photographed without their caps and gowns, contrary to the usual custom. The first order of Senior caps and gowns has arrived, however, at the Co-operative, and are ready for delivery, and in order to facilitate...