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...organization of the Junior Students' Army Training Crops is authorized by the War Department. In fact officially, the Junior Corps ranks as a separate company attached to the University Army Post. The students are enrolled with the regular S. A. T. C. and are under the command of Colonel Williams. The actual instruction of the members of the company, however, will be distinct from that of the S. A. T. C. The students will be under different instructors, and during the fall, at least, will not train with the senior corps. Two officers of the Massachusetts State Guard, Captain...
Colonel Charles Andrew Williams commandant of the University Corps, entered the service as a West Point cadet in 1870 and has spent his life since then in the Army. As a commissioned officer most of his service has been with the Twenty-First Infantry. The "fortunes of war" have carried him to Alaska, Cuba, and the Philippines, and into most of the northern states of the Union. When a second lieutenant during the campaign in 1877 against Chief Joseph, he was twice wounded in action. Company A of the Twenty-First Infantry was undress's immediate command in the Battle...
...Moot '08, of Buffalo, N. Y., has loaned his auxiliary schooner yacht "Adventuress" to the University for use in practical instruction in seamanship and navigation for men taking naval training courses. The yacht was delivered at Fort Jefferson, L. I., and arrived at Marblehead on June 5 under the command of Tucker Daland '73, assisted by Dr. H. T. Stetson, of the Astronomical Laboratory, and eight members of the training courses...
...conduct of the University Unit of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps during the summer and next year, certain changes in organization, contemplated for some time, will be made during the coming week. It is planned to centralize the administrative authority by abolishing the Tactical Staff, and giving the entire command to the Commandant, an assistant to the Commandant, and the Regimental Adjutant. The latter position is to be filled during the summer by Major C. C. Lane, long associated with the Corps and probably more familiar with its present needs than any other one man. Lieutenant Morize is expected...
...must "do the best we can to win the war." With valor and vigor and experience in command, General Wood is sure, living, to do his part, the spirit of his loyal utterance sustaining him. His part may lie on two continents. It will be useful to the common cause. It can hardly fail to be distinguished. --New York World...