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Twenty members of the R. O. T. C. will go on a four days mounted hike during the spring vacation, leaving Boston at 8.30 next Monday morning and returning to the Armory on Thursday afternoon, April 21. A squad of five enlisted men and a truck containing cooking utensils, shelter tents and blankets will accompany the students, who will pitch camp the first night in the vicinity of Concord. On Tuesday the R. O. T. C. men will camp near the Remount Station at Camp Devens, on Wednesday will return to Concord, and on Thursday to Boston. Full field equipment...
More than forty men have signed up for a mounted hike to be taken on some week-end during the spring, probably April 30, to May 2, weather permitting. The students will camp out on some farm ten or fifteen miles from Boston...
...battery was marched to the stables of the 81st Field Artillery, where they were assigned horses. Riding instruction began the course, and as the men improved they were given instruction in driving in gun teams. During the last week of camp the training regiment went of a three-day hike, spending two nights out under shelter tents...
...ground in a month that was covered before in three. Most of the work will consist of drill and conferences, but all the phases of modern warfare, such as bayonet fighting, trench-building, the use of gas, and the construction of obstacles, will be studied. A week's hike under full field equipment will conclude the work...
Each battalion will go to Wakefield by train or trolley on a Saturday. They will start their rifle practice immediately, camp at the range that night, continue the firing on Sunday if necessary, and will finally "hike" back to Cambridge on Sunday afternoon. Tentage for the University Corps will be provided by the Naval Reserve Force, now stationed at the range, so that the men will travel in light marching order...