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...second series of officers training camps will be held between August 27 and November 26 in order to develop officers for the second increment of 500,000 men of the new army, Adjutant General McCain announced in an official statement Saturday. The number of camps has been reduced to eight, in place of the 16 that are now training officers for the first 500,000. There will be no Plattsburg in the second series. The sites for the fall camps being for the most part in the south on account of climatic considerations. In general, qualifications for admission to these...
Such activities among the football players as will not interfere with military training at the colleges were approved of by the meeting unanimously, and the recommendation will be carried to the meeting of the National Collegiate Association to be held in Washington, D. C., in August. The resumption of intercollegiate athletics under present conditions, however, would at the best be difficult and revolutionary. By far the greater part of the men who have composed the athletic teams of the larger universities have entered some form of military service, and the teams which would represent these universities would necessarily be composed...
...Friday, June 1, for the purpose of inspecting the Reserve Officers' Training Corps. On the report which this inspector will make to Washington depends largely the questions of the Corps official recognition by the Government, and of the granting of commissions to such men as are qualified next August...
...denominations as low as $50 and as high as $1000. Registered bonds range from $100 to $100,000. The bonds may be paid for under the following government regulations: 2 percent. with the application, 18 per cent. on June 28, 20 percent. on July 20, 30 percent. on August 15, and 30 percent. and accrued interest on August 30. For a $50 bond it will therefore only be necessary to pay $1 down, $9 in the first instalment, and $10, $15, and $15 in the other three instalments respectively, the last of which is not due till...
...letter has been addressed by Major Palmer E. Pierce, U.S.A., president of the National Collegiate Athletic Association, to members of that organization and others interested intercollegiate athletics, suggesting a conference to be held in Washington next August to discuss the situation growing out of the war and to adopt a uniform policy looking to the preservation of intercollegiate athletics...