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THIRD CAMP DETAILS ANNOUNCED

2490 Men from Training Units of Country Will Be Accepted.

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Additional information regarding the third series of officers' training camps to be held from January 5 to April 5 has been obtained from the War Department in Washington by the CRIMSON. To these camps, which are primarily for enlisted men of the Regular Army, National Guard and National Army, 2490 graduates and undergraduates of 73 colleges and 20 military schools, which have earned recognition because of military training conducted under Army officers during the past ten years, will be admitted. The University has been assigned a quota of 56 men. Graduates and undergraduates of these institutions, however, who did not take the course of military training offered are not eligible for admission.

Men selected to attend from these institutions will be required to enlist for the duration of the war and if after completing the three months course they are not recommended for commission, they will be required to remain in the service and finish their enlistment. While students they will receive the pay and allowances of 1st class privates. Those who successfully complete the course and are recommended, will be carried on a list as eligible for appointment as 2nd lieutenants and will be commissioned in order of merit as vacancies occur.

One training school will be held in each Regular Army, National Guard and National Army Division, and the normal strength of each will be about 440 students, organized into one infantry company and one light artillery battery.

Application blanks have not yet beet received at the Military Office but may be obtained at the Headquarters of the North Eastern Division at 25 Huntington Avenue, Boston.

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