R. O. T. C. SPECIAL (Jfe Nan ijampaljto Volume 16. Issue 28. DURHAM, N. H., MAY 25, 1926. Price, 10 Cents R. O. T. C. INVADES CONCORD ENTRAINING AT DURHAM ARMY UNDER CRITICAL OBSERVATION FIRST AND SECOND DAY AT CAMP Hundreds of Visitors Crowd Camp Grounds to Watch Regiments as They Perform Duties of Soldiers At precisely 2.10 Sunday afternoon: before the rigorous inspection which the R. O. T. C. unit entrained for was on the program for the afternoon. Concord on the fourth annual military At one thirty P. M. the Board hike of the University. Six hundred1 selected three companies for special students filled the special train of exhibition work, one for field inspec­ eleven cars which took them to their tion and shelter tent pitching, one for destination. close order drill and one for massed Arriving at Concord at 4.15 the physical drill. At the same time se­ regiment disembarked and formed in­ lected platoons went through extend­ to a formation of squad columns and ed order drill. From three to four marched up Pleasant street to Main thirty the students assembled by street and through Bridge street to classes. At the area near the rifle the National Guard encampment range, for rifle marksmanship and grounds, the home of the cadets for automatic rifle exhibitions, the three days. A large crowd from Con­ freshman demonstrating the former, cord lined the streets through which and the sophomores the latter. Fol­ the outfit marched and gave the stu­ lowing the exhibition practice ques­ dents a warm welcome. tions were asked by the board on Upon reaching the camp, the regi­ scouting, patrolling and musketry. ment was divided off into companies The juniors demonstrated work on and assigned to company streets sketching and on the machine gun, streets which had already been staked while the seniors showed their out by the advance detail that had pre­ knowledge of the 37 millimeter guns pared the grounds for the outfit. At and trench mortars. 5.10 the packs were broken open and The artillery corps performed the the process of setting up the tents installation of artillery lines, loca­ was begun. At 5.30 the last tent was tion of observation posts and plotting up and the group of hungry men was room. Exhibition of antiair craft was at the mess hall waiting for the well also shown. known and cheerful “ mess call.” In the evening, Governor Winant The encampment is particularly for­ and his staff, the reserve officers of tunate in having as the head chef Concord and vicinity and President Joseph A. Muzzucketti, who has Hetzel were guests of the regiment handled all the large details that have at dinner, and later reviewed the re­ trained at Concord. He has alsotreat parade and formal guard mount, served with the Eagle Hotel and Nar- All, during the day, the camp was dini’s Restaurant. again crowded with visitors, many Visitors started to flock into the who were unable to come Sunday were camp grounds as soon as the unit ar­ present for the first time yesterday. rived. Mothers, brothers, sisters, They were escorted around the camp fathers, and friends all watched with by their friends or by orderlies as­ pleasure the actions of the students signed for that purpose. as they prepared the company streets. At seven o’clock, the band gave a The companies are arranged on the concert in the band stand at Concord. OFFICERS’ CLUB NOW southern side of the drill field. The This lasted until 8.30. Hundreds R. 0. T. C. COMPETES MAJOR WALKER SCABBARD AND BLADE R. 0. T. C, HISTORY various company streets starting with flocked around the stand and in the “A” spread westward across the immediate vicinity and all were loud field. in their praise for the exxcellent con­ Local Chapter Granted Petition in j FOR HIGH HONOR COMPLETES WORK BEGAN IN 1916 The advance detail which came to March— Includes 34 Members of cert that the band put on. The band the camp grounds had everything pre­ under the leadership o f Regimental the R. O. T. C.—Bryant Is Pres­ pared. The kitchen was placed in Adjutant Bryant did an excellent Distinguished College Transferred to C. A. C. ident Morrill Bill Passed in Examination This Week School at Fort Munroe working order, the telephones and piece of work. 1852 Maintains Military electric lights were installed and all After the band concert, the men Scabbard and Blade was founded in the minor details were attended to. were dismissed and joined the rest of FIRST TRIAL BY N, H. SERVED IN U. S. NAVY 1905 by five members of the cadet BASIC-ADVANCED COURSES The ground, which has been used for their friends at the Armory. Under corps of the University of Wisconsin. years by the national guard, is in the the auspices of the National Guard of Inspecting Officers from War Depart­ Major Walker Completes Assignment It is a national honorary military best of condition. Concord, a dance was run for the ment Examine University Regi­ as Commandant of Reserved Offi­ fraternity made up of 67 chapters and Reserved Officers’ Training Corps This is the first year that the an- i benefit of the R. O. T. C. Unit. It ment— Highest Honor School cers’ Training Unit Here— Re­ having a membership of approxi­ Formed in Colleges During World nual military trip has been left en- j was estimated that over 500 men from Can Obtain ceived His Training at U. S. mately 7,300 men. War— Six Weeks’ Summer Camp tirely in the hands of the student1 the camping grounds were there, Naval Academy The primary function of Scabbard for Advanced Students officers. This year the camp is in | Mazzetti’s White Fleet orchestra fur- and Blade is to raise the standards charge of Colonel H. W. Steere. i nished the music. of military training in American col­ The R. O. T. C. unit of the Univer­ The distinguished college rating, With the close of this term, Major Following the evening meal the ! At nine o’clock taps sounded and the for which the R. 0. T. C. unit of the leges and universities, to unite in sity of New Hampshire officially be­ Eugene B. Walker, C. A. C., will cadets executed a retreat parade and camp was quiet except for the steady University is beiing examined this closer relationship their military de­ gan with the passage of an act by have completed his assignment as formed guard mount which was re- tramping of the guards, week by a board of inspecting officers partment, to foster the essential qual­ Congress providing for the training commandant of the R. O. T. C. unit viewed by the regular army officers from the War Department, is the ities of good efficient officers, and to of men in the colleges of the country here. He will be transferred to the and about two hundred guests. This j ----------------------- highest honor that a college or uni­ promote intimacy and good fellow­ as the nucleus of a potential army. Coast Artillery School at Fort Mun­ parade completed the duty for the versity giving military training can ship among the cadet officers. Fur­ This act was the result of a realiza­ day. Busses then took the students ALPHA XI DELTAS HAVE roe, Va., as a student in the field offi­ thermore, the society stands for virile tion brought about by the World War obtain. cer’s course. to Concord and the rest of the eve­ ANNUAL SPRING FORMAL Besides the attendant honor, the Americanism and through its alumni that a group of well trained junior ning was spent getting acquainted Major Walker was born in New it tries to stimulate interest in a sane officers prepared to lead troops in rating would bring with it the right Mexico and attended ;school there*. with the capitol. Every street was to designate five per cent, of the hon­ degree of preparedness for the coun­ event of a great war was a vital represented by uniformed students in He was appointed to the Naval Acad­ try. necessity. The Alpha Xi Delta sorority gave or students completing the advanced groups of various sizes. its annual spring formal in the chap­ emy from Colorado in 1903, gradu­ The qualities for membership are Prior to this act New Hampshire course for commissions without ex­ Taps saw the outfit occupying their ter home, Saturday, May 22. The ating therefrom in 1907. His first not based on a display of military had maintained a detachment in ac­ amination in the regular army. At pup tents for the first time and learn­ house was attractively decorated with assignment was to the Brooklyn efficiency alone, but qualities of char­ cordance with the provisions of the the present time only one per cent, ing the trick of army bunking in the evergreen, apple blossoms, and but­ Navy Yard and then to the U. S. S. acter and manhood are given equal Morrill Bill, whicvh was accepted of the honor students completing the field. terflies in pastel shades. Virginia in Cuban waters. He soon importance, it being considered that July 21, 1862, by the New Hampshire course may be so designated. Other After reveille and breakfast Mon­ The guests were the following: joined the personnel of the U. S. S. the man who aspires for a commis­ Legislature. Military training as it advantages are gained by distin­ day morning there was a short period Stanley King, Alexander Currie, Ohio and cruised from New York to sion must possess, together with a is known today came into existence guished colleges; as for example, this of setting up drill to work out the Frederick Fudge, Raymond Warner, Seattle via the Straits of Magellan.