Word: yaphank
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...telegram was received yesterday from A. H. Scheffer '03, assistant secretary of the Harvard Club of New York, inviting the 51 members of the R. O. T. C. who are going to the third officers' training camp at Yaphank to make use of the Harvard Club building on their way to the camp next month or on any week-ends when they may be in the city on leave of absence from the camp. This action has been prompted by the fact that many of the men have no acquaintances in New York and would have no place...
...names of all the men who are going to Yaphank are being sent to the Harvard Club by the military office, and six-month guest cards will be issued and left at the Club office until called...
...classes in the University will be suspended between 1.30 and 2.30, and the special mid-year examinations for the men who are going to the third camp at Yaphank will be held at 2.30 instead of at 2, in order to permit the men who would attend 1.30 classes and take the examinations posted for 2 o'clock to be present at the funeral...
...afternoon. Classes in the University from 1.30 to 2.30 o'clock will be suspended so that students may be allowed to attend the funeral; and the special mid-year examinations for the members of the R. O. T. C. who are going to the third officers' training camp at Yaphank will be postponed from 2 o'clock till 2.30, consequently extending half an hour after the time already announced for their close. It is planned that the members of the University School for Ensigns who were in Lieutenant Greene's classes will march behind the funeral procession and be present...
...since a commission is the diploma of our military education, the present goal of most undergraduates. Abolition of Plattsburg officers' training camps together with the encouraged promotion of men from the ranks, leaves preliminary instruction more necessary than ever. Whether or not the present system of sending men to Yaphank continues, we know that ultimately a man of sufficient calibre will be an officer, and that thorough preparation will hasten the attainment of this end. The duty of R. O. T. C.'s is to provide not merely candidates for special camps, but soldiers with sufficient bearing and knowledge...