National Service Volume 3-4 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1918 Excerpt: ... expected from a distance. Flying in thunderstorms is, of course, dangerous because of the lightning. Rain-storms appreciably add to the The REVIVAL this SUMMER by the WAR DEPARTMENT of STUDENT MILITARY TRAINING CAMPS By Henry Sturgis Drinker President Of Lehigh University, Chairman Of The Governing Committee Of The Military Training Camps Association AS we all know, the summer Military Training Camps, from which our Military Training Camps Association was developed, were started in the summer of 1913 by a circular letter from Major General Leonard Wood, then Chief of Staff, and sent, under date of May 10, 1913, by direction of the Secretary of War, to all the University and College Presidents of the Country, asking their co-operation in the establishment of two experimental military training camps of instruction for students of.educational institutions, to'be held during the summer of 1913. Camps were held in that summer and again in the summers of 1914, 1915, and 1916, with constantly growing attendance, the project being enlarged in the summers of 1915 and 1916 by similar camps for business and professional men, so that the attendance, starting in 1913 with 222 in all, grew to 16,139 in the summer of 1916, and a safe estimate put the probable intended attendance in the summer of 1917, at 50,000. The entry of our country into the war, however, put an end. for the time, to these civilian camps, and the Reserve Officers' Training Camps took their place in 1917. Undere date of May 8th, last, the following circular letter was sent out by the Secretary of War: War Department To the Presidents of all Institutions of Collegiate grade. Washington, May 8, 191S. Dear Sirs: "In order to provide military instruction for the college students of the country during...