Word: summers
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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This Order concerns the next Officers' Camps. At first the minimum age limit was twenty-one years, which prevented the majority of last summer's Corps from applying. The present change, however, to twenty years and nine months lets in many who would otherwise have been in-eligible. Looking ahead the prospects are likewise encouraging. The younger men, under the new ruling, will be able to go into training camps three months sooner than under the previous system...
Professor William Ernest Hocking '01 will deliver the second lecture of the University War Series in the New Lecture Hall this evening at 8.15 o'clock. His topic will be, "The War Zone and What Lies Behind It." It will be based on Professor Hocking's experiences of last summer, when he visited the English and French fronts...
...cause for worry from a military point of view this battle is of no importance. Lieutenant Morize told us last summer that such a raid is perfectly simple to carry out successfully if one is willing to use up sufficient ammunition. So we need not feel that we have suffered a defeat. Our troops are but human after all and ten Germans are and should be able to overpower one American. We must get the Prussian idea out of our heads, namely, that we are a race of supermen...
...higher officers of the Corps has been that company records and the other data which are so essential a part of company organization must also change hands. This would be an insurmountable difficulty if the R. O. T. C. were on a basis similar to that of last summer; that is to say, if we were under intensive training. As it is, with but an hour's drill two or three times per week, the clerical work could easily be shifted without loss of organization...
...advantages in such a change would be great. Many men have spent two and even three summers under military discipline; many who have only been in last summer's corps could easily command a company. The belief that there are only twelve men in college fit to command a large unit or to act as supply and top sergeants is unsound and untenable. The men now training here should be given every possible opportunity to exercise leadership. If some are fit for captaincies and the rank of the higher sergeant positions, there is no valid reason for preventing them...