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 ��THE FORT SHERIDAN ASSOCIATION

���NEW ONES ON "THE DOUBLE"

��In addition to important news articles and "Latest Bulletins", a sketch, usually of a prominent officer of the camp, occupied the front page. A "Y. M. C. A. Column", "R. O. T. C. Notes", poems and jingles, bits of news and cartoons, with "ads", sprinkled in, filled the other seven. The paper was a great success.

The first column of the first page of the first "Reveille" tells an interesting story :

This is the fifth week at the Reserve Officers' Training Camp — five w^eeks of downright, hard work. The results are wholly satisfactory to both the men and the instructors.

The rapidity w^ith which the rudiments of military training have been grasped by men who have heretofore had no experience in that line is one of the remarkable features of the first five weeks.

In spite of a lot of wild rumors to the effect that the final physical tests would result in wholesale rejections, quite the contrary is true. The men are showing up well in these final tests and it now appears that the rejections from the physical standpoint w^ill be very few. The grind in getting into trim has been very hard, and the work incident to this task, added to the tense uncertainty about the final outcome of the tests, has placed a severe strain upon the men. That they are coming out well even under this strain shows that when they get into full swing Uncle Sam will have no occasion to worry about the conduct of his new officers under the trying conditions soon to confront them.

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