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Show MM A8B0T , AT UNIVERSITY Captain Stephen Abbott, U. S. A., retired, professor of military science and tactics at the Utah Agricultural college for the past two years, has been given command of the students' army training corps unit established nl 1lin inctfhiUnn I nrlnrl in r llio niltArl. al army training detachment now in operation there, according to a telegram tele-gram just received by the captain. Captain Abbot graduated from West Point in 1902. For the next two years he served in the field artillery. From i 190-1 to 1908 ho was instructor at West Point where he taught in the department depart-ment of foreign languages and tactics. While teaching at West Point, Captain Abbot was assigned to the post artillery. artil-lery. Captain Abbot traveled extensively exten-sively in western Europe while upon academic leave from West Point He studied general and military condU tions in France, Germany, Austria, Italy, It-aly, Spain, Belgium and Holland. Napoleon's Na-poleon's famous campaigns were studied stud-ied upon the actual battle fields. Captain Cap-tain Abbot also visited the battle fields of tho famous battle of Sedan where Prussia so disastrously defeated France in 1870. Captain Abbot was later commander of Company 47, coast artillery, Fort Hunt, after which he was assigned to the submarine mine company at Fort Rosecrans, Cal. In 1911 he received his commission as captain. Captain Abbot was assigned to duty as adjutant at the war prison camp at Fort Douglas at the establishment of that camp. In 1917 he was assigned to the Utah Agricultural college as professor of military science and tactics. tac-tics. It was during Captain Abbot's first year at the college that the institution in-stitution received 6 senior infantry unit of the reserve officers' training corps. Much of the success of that organization has been due to the organizing or-ganizing skill of Captain Abbot. In Captain Abbot, the institution will have an exceedingly able man in charge of its students' army training corps. oo |