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 THE FIRST OFFICERS TRAINING CAMP

��a great number of physicians not schooled in some of the pecuHar mihtary technicalities. At a certain scheduled hour, a company would be inarched over to the old hospital on the north side of the ravine. The men would form a single file outside and by jumps of about ten at a time, gradually become assimilated through the front entrance. Long before the last of the men had gone in, the first were coming out from some side door, left sleeves rolled to the shoulder and upper arms feeling strangely queer but showing nothing except occasionally a tiny crimson drop. If the stories of these aching-armed jolliers could be believed, Dante himself w^as w^ithin personally conducting a tour through those regions which he has so w^ell pictured for us. The low- spirited remainder knew not whether to laugh it off or become more con- cerned. The usual result w^as a forced grin and absolute petrification.

On Thursday, June 1 4th, one month after the commencement of training, appeared the first copy of "The Ft. Sheridan Reveille", the paper which, after the issue of Thursday, June 2 1 st, was to be published every Friday until training at Fort Sheridan ceased to be. It was a paper gotten up to keep the men informed as to what had gone on, what was going on, and w^hat was to go on in camp and in the military world. It also aimed to cheer with a fund of fun. The editors consisted of E. B. Lockw^ood, managing editor; R. F. Rolfe, advertising manager, and Lew Merrill, artist and correspondent. There were eight good pages of reading matter, cartoons and advertisements.

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