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Graduates to the R. O. T. C. may read the announcement of the Third Training Camps with satisfaction. The failure to grant commissions at the completion of the course in August was a disappointment. Though it is regretted that no official recognition could have been made at the time, it is gratifying to learn that no men, other than those of the two armies and graduates of training corps will be accepted for the next camps...
...enrolled in the new School will be taken from Class 4 of the General Service of the Naval Reserve. Four hundred of these men took examinations last summer on August 22 and 29 at the Charlestown Navy Yard. Captain Parker said that the selection of these men was going on now, but that he would be unable to secure a complete list until the end of this week. The sudden increase in the enrolment has of course postponed the announcement...
Taking advantage of President Lowell's offer made during the latter part of the Summer the War Department detailed 550 newly commissioned Reserve Officers to report to Captain Shannon at Cambridge on August 19 for three weeks training under Lieutenant Colonel Azan and the other members of the French Military Mission at the University. The men were selected from the various training camps of the East, and consisted for the most part of first and second lieutenants, although the number included also six majors and 98 captains. Unfortunately, Captain Shannon was ordered to Washington before the men reported...
...also be Captain H. Amann, Captain Loriot, Lieutenant Jean Jegou and Lieutenant Rene Bose who were detailed to Cambridge by the French military authorities at Washington. Lieutenant Giradoux, one of the original six officers of the French Military Mission, returned to France in the middle of August after a sickness brought on by his several wounds...
...return trip to Cambridge was made on Saturday, August 11, and on the following Wednesday the closing exercises were held in Sanders Theatre. Addresses were made by President Lowell, Lieutenant Colonel Azan and Captain Shannon; the certificates of attendance were distributed to the company commanders for distribution, and the men were dismissed...