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...Harvard branch of the Intercollegiate Intelligence Bureau has been requested to recruit at least two ambulance units from graduates and members of the University for immediate service abroad. These units will become part of the Medical Enlisted Men's Reserve Corps, and will be one of the first United States Army contingents to reach France. The ambulance units will also give substantial assistance to the French ambulance service, and will furthermore serve as Harvard units during the duration of the war. Some insignia designating the distinctive corps will be given to the members...
...recruits will be assigned to the Recruit Detachment which will be under the command of 1st Lieutenant George Blake, R. O. T. C. Men will be transferred to companies after they have reached the desired state of proficiency and upon recommendation of the detachment commander...
...rapid progress of the new companies is due in large part to the formation of the so-called "Recruit Detachment" in which all recruits who have had little or no military experience are placed. Formerly the new men were distributed throughout the four companies, but as this system held back the men who had been drilling several days, the Recruits' Detachment was started this week to take care of the inexperienced men. The recruits will be trained until they are considered sufficiently well drilled to join the other companies when they will probably be distributed in the provisional battalion...
...University will begin work this evening, when a meeting for all men interested in this branch of the service will be held in the Cruft Laboratory at 7.30 o'clock. Captain C. E. Russell of the United States Signal Corps, who has been detailed by the Eastern Department to recruit a reserve battalion, will speak, and explain in full the plans made for the corps at the University. It is planned to have one course of classes on Monday, Wednesday and Friday nights especially for members of the University, while another group on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday evenings will...
...University will commence Monday when a meeting for all men interested in this branch of the service will be held in the Cruft Laboratory at 7.30 o'clock. Captain C. E. Russell of the United States Signal Corps, who has been detailed by the Eastern Department to recruit a reserve battalion of the Signal Corps, will speak and explain in full the plans made for the corps at the University. It is planned to have one course of classes on Monday, Wednesday and Friday nights, especially for members of the University, and another group on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday nights...