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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Funston we were chagrined; we had expected that he would be one of the first to lead American troops in France. We were disappointed there; instead of going abroad with one of the Regular Army divisions General Wood was given command of Camp Funston and charged with training forty thousand civilians into soldiers. In so doing he used some of our last year's R. O. T. C. graduates to teach French open order to his officers. In such little ways and by countless others General Wood built up his division until now on the eye of their departure...
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...
Complete sets of text books used in all the important college courses are needed for next year by the text-book loan library of Phillips Brooks House, if the library is to be kept up-to-date. To do this it will be necessary to collect over a thousand books this spring. Although there will probably be no regular book collection for the remainder of this year, it is desired that all men who have volumes which they will no longer need leave them at the Phillips Brooks House or else send a postal card stating that they have some...
...abilities. Your names, your worth, your possibilities are known. When you are needed, you will be called. Every month, every week, the War Department says. "We need so many men, of such and such categories--and it finds them. On the day when there is need for so many thousand young students for such and such branches of the service, you will be told, you will be called; and on that day I should blame you if you did not go, just as vehemently as I now urge you to stay where you are. If it is true that this...
...plans must be revised, augmented, redrawn to a more gigantic scale. We have a million and a half men in service and in training. We are calling out eight hundred thousand more in the second draft. But even that will be not enough. We can do better. We can give more...