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Approximately 500 applications have been received to date for admission to the University summer training camp. Of these the majority are from undergraduates or members of the University. The R. O. T. C. officials have announced that a thousand men will be accepted so that there are still many vacancies to be filled...
Lieutenant-Colonel Paul Azan, head of the French Military Mission to the United States and former active commander of the University's corps of French Military instructors, anticipates co-operation with Lieutenant Morize in commandng the maneuvers of the R. O. T. C. at Lancaster and Devens this summer. He declared this intention in a statement to the Military Office, expressing his satisfaction with the appearance and work of the regiment during his inspection of the troops in their drills and maneuvers at Fresh Pond. His statement was given out for publication yesterday by Headquarters...
...speaking of the corps' coming period of summer training, Colonel Azan was keenly enthusiastic over the opportunities awaiting the regiment...
...summer camp which is going to open near Camp Devens," he continued, "where they can profit by many of the advantages of the National Army Camp, and where I expect to work with Lieutenant Morize, will permit them to perfect still more their practical instruction, and to put to use all the theoretical training that they have received during the winter. Like their comrades of last year, they have enthusiasm, good will, and the spirit of discipline...
...which contains more for us than the mere opinion which we expected. He is satisfied, indeed, and pleased with the work of the corps; but more important than this, he makes an announcement of exceptional interest to all of us who are going to the R. O. T. C. summer camp. He declares in his own words that he "expects to work there with Lieutenant Morize." Colonel Azan is known to us all as the leader of the French Military Mission to the University last year, and as the author of a much-studied treatise on present war tactics...