Word: yaphank
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Dates: during 1917-1917
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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...
...leave Cambridge for ten days of food and rest from nine o'clocks and other terrors of a college existence we should make sure that we have not forgotten to say Merry Christmas and good-bye to our friends among the fifty-one fortunates who are leaving us for Yaphank. These men are starting down the path that leads to commissions and France, and many of them may not have a chance to return here before going "over there." This is their Commencement Day; we still have to await our turn. They are going away from Harvard not to come...
...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...
...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...