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...University unit of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps will be formally inspected by Captain Austin McC. McDonell, C. A. C., the official representative of the War Department, in the Stadium this afternoon at 3.45 o'clock. The First Battalion will represent the Regiment in today's ceremony and the future status of the Corps in the eyes of the military authorities at Washington rests entirely upon the showing made by the four companies chosen to take part in the inspection. Captain McDonell is under orders not only to inspect the arms and equipment of the men in the Corps...
Today's ceremony is a part of a nationwide inspection held each spring by the War Department to ascertain the strength and condition of the units of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps maintained by the various colleges in the United States. Each unit is held responsible for the condition of the arms and equipment issued to it by the Government, and the commandant of the Corps must in every case state just what ground has been covered by the men in training during the year. On the basis of the reports handed in by its inspecting officers in different parts...
Word has also been received that Lieutenant H. B. Willis '12, a member of the Lafayette Escadrille, is a prisoner in Germany, being captured at Verdun in August, 1917. He went to France as a member of an American ambulance unit, in which capacity he received the Croix de Guerre. He later entered the French air service as a member of the Lafayette Escadrille...
...University unit of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps will take part in the "All-America" parade which is to be held in Boston on Saturday afternoon, April 6, in connection with the opening of the Third Liberty Loan campaign. In preparation for this event the Corps will change its schedule of training to a certain extent next week, and will turn its attention to attaining perfection in close order drill instead of continuing the position and aiming exercises which have constituted a large part of the work in the past three weeks. The bayonet work will continue as before...
...maneuvering has been instituted for the men who are to leave for the next Officer' Training Camp. The corps regulations have recently been stiffened and no cuts will be allowed during the remainder of the year. Similar work is being done at Syracuse University, from which a large ambulance unit was recently sent to France...