SUMMER CAMPS NEED SUPPORT

Between two and three hundred undergraduates must enroll at Regimental Headquarters this week, if the re-opening of the summer military training camps this years is to be assured. Enrolment of men now need be only tentative; if a man is reasonably sure he will be able to go to a summer camp, he should sign at once, and if necessary he may withdraw later. The cause for this urgent demand for training-camp recruits is the announcement of the executive committee of the First Training Regiment Organization, to the effect that 5,000 college and business men must be registered for summer duty before March 15, to satisfy Congress that the camps are generally desired.

The term of the Second Camp Junior Division at Plattsburg, N. Y., will be from July 5 to August 8, this year. The camp will be composed of undergraduates and graduates in 1916 of colleges and universities; students in schools who have reached a grade equivalent to the Senior class in High School; and graduates, under 21, of such schools. The railroad fare from Boston to Plattsburg will be $5.50 over the Central Vermont lines. The only additions necessary to the regimental uniform as it is now worn will be two shirts and a jacket. The total expense for the entire trip will be about $28 plus the cost of extra clothes. The expense for the Senior Division is greater.

The War Department has as yet definitely settled on only two locations for training camps,--Plattsburg, N. Y., and Oglethorpe, Pa. Presidio, Cal., and Ludlington, Mich., will probably house camps as they did last summer and there will be as many additional camps as applications warrant.

The benefits of life in the summer camps are, as is now well known, not confined to increased military knowledge alone. There are physical benefits derived from the constantly active outdoor life, the mutually broadening influences of intimate associations with students of other institutions, and the increase in business efficiency through habits of obedience, order, and self-control.

Among the subjects of instruction given by qualified U. S. army officers are principles of tactics, map-making, use of a rifle, cooking, sanitation, bridge-building, field telephone operation, psychology of war, and the military history of our country. Each student who completes the course will receive a certificate and his name and other data will be put on file in the War Department as a possible officer in event of war