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...going to the government camp at Plattsburg, June 3 to July 3, will be organized as a unit to be known as the June Camp Detachment...
...This unit will assemble inside the Stadium at 8 A. M., Monday, May 13, under arms...
...Smyth is hereby detailed in charge of this unit for morning drill...
...concerning the work of the college R. O. T. C.'s next year, as reprinted in another column from yesterday's Boston papers, brings practical results, it will be a cause of general satisfaction. By this plan, every college with an enrollment of over 100 will have a training unit, recognized, equipped, and officered by the War Department. Students will not be required to join, but when they do they will be regularly enlisted and subject to the call of the President. Only the gravest emergency, however, will bring a call before an undergraduate reaches the age of twenty...
This step has a double value to the colleges of the country. In two-thirds of them, where, for reasons often of lack of equipment or officers, no military unit has been established, every opportunity will now be given to train an efficient corps. In addition, the R. O. T. C.'s that have already been established will be brought into more perfect co-ordination; the War Department will know just what results it wants from each one, and the best way to obtain these results. As the graduates of the R. O. T. C.'s will be trained uniformly...