MILITARY INSTRUCTION CAMPS

Major-General Leonard Wood, Chief-of Staff of the United States Army, will give a talk on "Students' Military Instruction Camps," in the Living Room of the Union this evening at 8.30 o'clock. The lecture will be of exceptional interest to the undergraduates, because it will give them a chance to fully understand these summer camps for the military training of college students, by the originator of the plan.

Tentative Plans.

Owing to the marked success of the experimental camp held at Gettysburg, Pa., last summer, the War Department has decided to hold four divisions of it this year. The northeastern camp will be held at Burlington, Vt., from July 6 to August 7, inclusive, and other locations tentatively selected, will be at Monterey, Cal., on the eastern shore of Lake Michigan, and at Ashville, N. C.

The purpose of the camps is to train leaders for militia in times of emergency, but besides the primary training in military tactics and manoeuvres, the men receive, through discipline and rigorous exercise, a mental and physical betterment that in itself is invaluable.

The cost of this very pleasant five weeks' outing and training is only $17.50 for board and $5 for uniform, plus traveling expenses. The Government furnishes all the other regular equipment, such as arms, ammunition, eating utensils, and sleeping kits.

General Wood.

Major-General Wood has seen varied service in army affairs. He was in the Spanish-American War and won distinction in the Cuban campaign. Upon Roosevelt's becoming President; Wood was made chief-of-staff over the heads of several men who were his seniors in point of years and service. General Wood has held this post ever since, and has been active in advocating a more coherent organization of the army. He has raised the number of men in the military branch of the service to nearly full complement.