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...Word has come form the War Department that it will be impossible to establish an Officers' Training Corps camp at Harvard this summer; but the University is advised to continue its program of military training, and the officers detailed here will be continued on duty as long as possible. This means that the Government feels unable to pay for subsistence or to supply additional instructors. The first of these things is the more serious because it is likely to prevent many good men from service in the corps by reason of the cost of board. Additional instructors are not necessary...
...Reserve Officers" Training Corps is certainly on the right track, and a small contingent of United States soldiers sent over to Europe would greatly strengthen the bonds between free countries, and the reception they would get in England and France would be extraordinary. It will be worth while to establish the best kind of relations because perhaps ten years from now it will be a good idea for England and America to be together on the side of democracy...
...Massachusetts School for Naval Air Service is to establish instruction camps in order to give students sufficient training to admit them to the Flying Reserve. An aviation school will be opened at Squantum this summer to provide just such training. Admission is open to those between 18 and 24 years of age who can pass a rigorous physical examination. After finishing the work at Squantum, the men will take a course at Pensacola, Fla., before being enrolled as officers in the Reserve Flying Corps...
Great interest has been shown in the attempts to establish an aeroplane corps, and more than 200 men have agreed to become members if it is formed. The equipment would be provided largely by the alumni...
...effort to secure information by experiment. The predominant effect of the Act, therefore, is such that sustaining it will not open any unobstructed way for attack by the legislature upon any fundamental condition of the existence of the social order. The decision does not in the least tend to establish that wage fixing acts are "due processes of law." The dissenting judges in performing the process of balancing the interests must have regarded the predominant effect of the Act as one which substituted the legislative flat for the freedom of the railroad managers to contract with employees as to wages...