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...keener as November 7 draws near, the CRIMSON is planning a series of articles by men prominent in undergraduate affairs and who are more or less fixed to set forth their political views. In this connection any members of the University are invited to make use of the communication column of the CRIMSON for the expression of their opinions in regard to the coming Presidential election. This is not intended to make the CRIMSON the battlefield on which the opposing factions may hurl personal invectives and rant about preparedness or pacifism as the spirit may move them, but to give...
...communication, printed in another column, seeks to make a comparison between the new military course and the Regiment, and one which is unfavorable towards the plan of a reserve officers' training corps. Although the writer gives a list of excellent reasons for the ultimate success of the Harvard Regiment, he concludes that the present course will give merely theoretical training and that there will be no opportunity to learn "the essentials of leadership." Contrary to these statements one third of the time required for this course will be reserved for practical drill, and in the spring a series of tactical...
...another column is printed the complete announcement of the new course on Military Science and Tactics. The number of officers detailed to the University by the War Department will depend entirely upon the size of the enrollment in this course. To those members of the Senior Class who have attended one summer camp and who were members of the Regiment last year, attendance in this course will make them eligible for the rank of second lieutenant in the reserve army. Seniors who served in the Regiment last year and who satisfactorily complete this course will be entitled to the same...
...Junior Class Day ushers must report at Harvard 1 this morning at 10 o'clock to receive badges and general instruction and assignments. It is essential that everyone be on time. Lists of general assignment appear in the notice column and are also posted at Leavitt & Peirce...
...another column the CRIMSON prints an article by one of the principal backers of the summer camp idea, Colonel Roosevelt. "These camps," he says, "are the entering wedge for a system of universal and obligatory military training for universal and obligatory military service." The word "obligatory" always has and probably always will irritate certain kinds of American citizens, the flag-waving, "land-of-the-free" singing kind. To them it savors of imperialism, largely because the most imperialistic of all nations has obligatory military training...