Bomb . Artillery Camp After an exciting finals, the artillery unit assembled at the station to bid good-bye toSi and incidentally to entrain for Camp Knox. Our sjjecial train consisted of onecoach, no lights, chicken-wire window screens, no sheets, one porter and fifty-nine trip was full of lamentations and dirt; the cadets full of fond memories, cuss words and ; and the porter full of Ding Dongs liniment. We arrived at camp on the 24th, were loaded into trucks and hurried off amid a cloud of dust to our quarters. Battery C was composed of men from V. M. I., Ames, Harvard and Culver
Bomb . Artillery Camp After an exciting finals, the artillery unit assembled at the station to bid good-bye toSi and incidentally to entrain for Camp Knox. Our sjjecial train consisted of onecoach, no lights, chicken-wire window screens, no sheets, one porter and fifty-nine trip was full of lamentations and dirt; the cadets full of fond memories, cuss words and ; and the porter full of Ding Dongs liniment. We arrived at camp on the 24th, were loaded into trucks and hurried off amid a cloud of dust to our quarters. Battery C was composed of men from V. M. I., Ames, Harvard and Culver. Thediscipline of the battery, coupled with the willingness of the men to work and learn, soonmade of it the most proficient organization of the camp, and V. M. I. played no smallpart, especially in practical work. The keydets held their own in athletics withoutdifficulty. Summers won the boxing championship, and Gob Venable cleaned up inthe wrestling end of the game. The Institute was well represented
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