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...Groot remained in the army, and was commissioned second lieutenant in the 28th Infantry in May, 1917. He was promoted to his present rank in August, 1917, but whether he was in France at that time or not is not yet known, because the date of sailing of his unit has been kept secret...
President and Mrs. Lowell will be at home and glad to see all students of the University, including members of the S. A. T. C. and Naval Unit, Sunday afternoon, at their house, 17 Quincy street from 4 until 6 o'clock...
Major Radcliffe Heermance, U. S. A., has assumed command of the Harvard S. A. T. C. unit relieving Colonel Williams, who at his own request has been transferred to more active service. Major Heermance was graduated from Williams College in 1904, and received the degree there in 1906, and later at Harvard in 1908, and Princeton in 1909. For the past ten years he has been a member of the faculty at the latter University, instructing in English and in Military Science and Tactics. After the establishment of the R. O. T. C. at Princeton he was an instructor...
...infantry in November. His first assignment was as instructor at the third Officers' Training Camp at Camp Lee, Virginia. At the close of this camp in May, 1918, he was transferred to the training detachment at the Georgia School of Technology at Atlanta, Georgia, as commanding officer of that unit. In October, when the S. A. T. C. was established there, he was made commandant of that organization in addition to other duties, and held that position until his recent transfer to Harvard. He received his promotion to the rank of major last August...
Enthusiastic reports are being received from the universities of this section. Large amounts are being piled up at Yale, Princeton, and Cornell. Yale's quota has been placed at $75,000, and the average subscription there is well over $30--which means that the military units are giving a month's pay in the great majority of cases. In the University, the marine unit is leading in the average amount of each subscription; they are giving $7 per man; the S. A. T. C. is averaging $4 and the Naval Unit is trailing with one dolar a piece. Unless these...