Indiana University - Arbutus Yearbook (Bloomington, IN)

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DIJ Up with Your Right Hand TRAINING CAMP WHEX the announcement was first made of tlie first Reserve Officers Training Camp to be held at Fort Benjamin Harrison, at Indianapolis, beginning on May 15, 19 17, and lasting until August, there was a rush on the part of Indiana University students and alumni, Avho wanted to do their part for Uncle Sam. ( jf the hundred or more students wIk ) applied thirty-one were admit- ted. These men received full university credit so that they would not be handicapped on their return to school after the war. Those Ikkisistible Uniforms ! ii i ' ase Nineteen 1918

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.iBl OS t N-l 1. U. GIFT FLAGS liuliana L ' nivcrsii - sliulcius ami facully women ])resented to the Ambulance Cor])s two i iii s of standard size, one Red Cro ' s, tlu- other collet e, which it is permitted to carrv with it into action In army regulations. Each of the flaT;s is of heavy flag- silk, twen- tv-five by nineteen inches, with an inch and a half gold fringe, and each will be mnunled iin a six-foot standard. The design of the Red Cross flag is the familiar red cross on the white field. The University fla ' is di- i(led diagMnall} ' into two triangles, one of white and the otliei- of red. The red field contains the University seal. The letters of the unit printed in yold are in the white field. Chaki.ev ' s Still Carkyinc On Pago n:iKhtoen 19 X k M

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r- .. . ' ' .ui 9 .h jih 4 M I. U. Men in First Tkai. ].m, Cami ' . I-uki Hakkisu.n The camp was to have opened on the eighth of May. but owing ' in the laro-e number of applicants it was delayed until the fifteenth of May. and lasted till August fifteenth. Oil. lulwin V. Glenn, wlm Cdunnandcd the tn t])s on the Mexican border a ear ago, was ])laced in command. The cam]) at l irt 1 larri- son was used for the men of the R. f X T. C. from Indiana. ( )Iii(i .and Kentucky. There were five thousand men from these . ' states. The rei|uirements for admission were strict — only men o er twenU ' years and nine months of age, who ])assed a very rigid ])hysical and mental exann ' nation. being ;idmilted. A ery large ])ercentage ot the Indiana I ' nixersily students ])assed these exaniin;itions. The first month of the camp all men received the same instruction, such as .s(|uad and company movements. At the end of the month they were divided iiUo five br.anches i the service, giving them sjiecial tr.aining in tlu--e diffei-eiU (le] ;irtments. The five de])artment-; were the inf;intr ' . c;i alr -. field .artillerv. engineers and coast artillery. The I ' ugi TwL ' nly 1918