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Captain Cordier, who is now in Washington on business connected with the R. O. T. C. Unit at the University, has sent the following message to the men in the unit...
...other members of the Harvard R. O. T. C. Unit are strongly advised to stay in the unit. An effort is being made by Captain Cordier to have the Harvard Unit put on the same basis as the Federal Training Camps--that is, so that members of this unit of the prescribed age can be commissioned in the Officers' Reserve Corps at the end of three months' intensive training on exactly the same footing as men who go to the Plattsburg and other Federal Training Camps...
Captain Cordier believes that the Harvard Unit will be placed on that footing by the War Department and expects a definite reply today...
...advice to enroll at 42 Water street, Boston, is given before definite information is secured about the Harvard Unit in order that men who are eligible may be certain of getting to a training camp, as the enrolment for those camps is proceeding rapidly and there are a large number of applicants...
...rank it stands next to the Engineer Corps, and its work is most necessary to the nation in time of war. The requirements for commissions in this reserve are very high, but the only requirements for the noncommissioned ranks are that the applicant be a citizen of the United States between the age of 18 and 45 years. When the army is fighting the field battalion works at the absolute front and maintains communication with every unit, post, and detachment. The methods of signaling employed are the radio, the buzzer, the telegraph, and visual signaling...