MILITARY WORK AT DARTMOUTH
Military work at Dartmouth has continued under the able direction of Captain Chase, but many of the men who commenced drill work have left for the various training camps, for ambulance work, and other activities.
In a talk to members of the Class of 1915 in Boston, April 30, President Hopkins stated that all but twenty-five of the fifteen'hundred Dartmouth students were engaged in some sort of war service. He stated that he believed this showing was greater in proportion to the total student body enrollment than that of any institution of like nature in the country.
The men taking the military stores course in the Tuck School, some of whom have been drilling with the undergraduates afternoons, and some with the Home Guards, have been withdrawn from these companies, and put into a separate company.
In order that the men may have then afternoons during the examination period free for drill, the examination schedule has been modified so that no examinations will be held afternoons. The examinations which heretofore have covered three hour periods, will this year be limited to two hours, and all will be held mornings.
The College has been fortunate in securing the services of Captain Louis Keene of the 150th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force, who has seen active service for eighteen months in the trenches. Captain Keene received wounds for which he was sent home to Canada, and now he has been detailed by the Canadian Government for instruction work in the United States. Under his direction men are being given work in trench digging on the vacant lot east of the Alumni Oval. The men detailed for the trench work are constructing trenches exactly like those in France, eight feet deep in the usual key-shaped form These trenches are being reinforced at the bottom with poles and lattice work. Above the trenches sandbags will be placed. Barbed wire entanglements, thirty yards deep, are also being constructed at a distance of thirty yards in front of the trenches. The College is supplying tools, wire, and sandbags for this work.
Dartmouth will also have the record of having supplied from its undergraduate body a complete company of the signal reserve corps.
Capt. L. O. Tarleton, U. S. A. medical corps, and Capt. C. E. Russell, U. S. R. signal corps, have just completed the examination and swearing in of the first half of this company. Thirty-nine men, having successfully passed their physical examinations, have started intensive training at Dartmouth. Nearly 30 more have signified their intentions of joining this company as soon as they can communicate with their parents. The non-commissioned officers of this company will be appointed from the College and they will go into active service as a Dartmouth unit.
Telegrams were received May 21 from Secretary of War Baker and also from Senator Hollis that rifles for the use of the Dartmouth companies, had been shipped to Hanover.
