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Show j?. o. t. a ONE would not guess, on observing the size of the unit and the amount of equipment, that three years ago the local R. O. T. C. consisted of only one battalion, and a lean battalion at that. Today the enrollment has more than doubled, and the organization expanded into a full regiment. Under the administration of Major Batson, the new Professor of Military Science and Tactics, the R. O. T. C. courses have become more popular than ever and over six hundred men are taking advantage of the opportunity presented to secure a commission in the Organized Reserves. The course offered gives instruction in every line of the Field Artillery branch of the service. In the beginning course the cadet is given theoretical and practical training in all the fundamentals of the branch. The second year is a continuation, in more advanced form, of the first. The third and fourth years are given over mostly to the training needed to become an officer, and are devoted to the principles of directing and employing gunfire to the greatest advantage. Courses in equitation are also given. Upon the satisfactory completion of the full four years' course and six weeks' attendance at camp, the cadet is commissioned a Second Lieutenant in the Organized Reserves. The instructors during the past year were all army officers assigned to special R. O. T. C. duty. They were Major R. C. Batson, Captain V. R. Woodruff, Captain W. C. Green, Captain T. W. Jones, Captain W. P. Bledsoe, and Captain S. White. Major Batson, Captain Woodruff, Captain Green, Captain White, Captain Jones, Captain Bledsoe. Major R. C. Batson Professor of Military Science and Tactics. |