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Captain James A. Shannon, captain of cavalry, United States Army, who has just reported here for duty in connection with the Reserve Officers' Training Corps, in an interview yesterday with a CRIMSON reporter, spoke with much enthusiasm of the spirit and organization of the University unit. Captain Shannon did not arrive in Cambridge until late Friday afternoon, so he has not had an opportunity to review any of the companies, but he has noticed the zeal and interest with which the student body is carrying forward its military preparations, and he is much impressed...
...Cavalry Unit Planned...
...University 2 where Assistant Deans Little and Mayo will be glad to confer with all persons desiring advice or information. The opportunities open to members of the University to prepare themselves for war are many and various. Apart from the Infantry Reserve Officer's Corps, of which a training unit is established at the University, admission may be secured to any of the following: Cavalry Officers' Reserve Corps, Field Artillery Officers' Reserve Corps, Coast Artillery Officers' Reserve Corps, Medical (to include the reserve officers of the Medical Corps, Dental Corps, and Veterinary Corps, Officers' Reserve Corps, Adjutant General's Officers...
...course the most apparent means of preparing is the Reserve Officers' Training Corps. If the Unit commences intensive training following the outbreak of war as is at present expected, new battalions will probably be formed to take care of the large number of recruits who, it is anticipated, will apply for enrolment in the Corps...
...patrol boat unit, for a boat 40 feet long, would be an ensign, a quartermaster, an engineer and four seamen. Two members of such a unit, the ensign and the engineer, are required to have had some experience. The former has to be familiar with coastwise navigation, know how to read charts, and to fix cross bearings. Engineers are to know how to properly handle their engine. Certain men will be enrolled as quartermasters with the understanding that they will learn their duties immediately. Members of the University have the opportunity of forming among themselves patrol boat units, and deciding...