Word: yaphank
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Dates: during 1917-1917
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...Yaphank! The College Office announces today that the special mid-year examinations will be held from December 18 to December 24, inclusive. The new military figures may return to their respective homes to take a much-needed rest before entering the third camp, and during that period of vacation no bugbear of tests to come will hang over them. The traditional antipathy of undergraduates toward the Office will certainly be effaced--temporarily, if not permanently. Benevolent rulers are now enthroned in University Hall, who minister to the needs of their subjects. The greatest of all needs was the force...
...take the special set of mid-year examinations which will extend from December 26 to January 2, and will probably receive orders from the War Department telling them just when and where to report for duty. It is expected that the University's representation will be stationed at Yaphank...
That Secretary Baker was pleased with our work here is highly complementary, but the best information is his statement regarding future officer's camps. There has always been the impression in the University that the next camp,--that at Yaphank,--was to be the last, that from then on all officers were to come from the ranks. To the men under twenty-one this has been a cause of much unrest and no little worry. The Secretary has now assured us that the Officers' Training Camps are to continue as long as the War lasts and that they are always...
...Department has ordained that the Harvard men who are going to the third Officers Training Camp shall be sent to Yaphank, L. I., there to be trained with the National Army units from New York State...
Most of our undergraduates expected that Ayer would be their destination, and the Sunny South of New York State comes as a relief. In spite of all that has been said, Yaphank is not a bad spot to spend the winter. Undoubtedly it is less frigid than Ayer; in fact the center of Long Island is supposedly ten degrees warmer than New York City itself. The coating of snow and ice will keep the terrible dust down; the monotany of swamp-oak will be broken by this time by the newly-laid out drill grounds and cantonments...