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...Training Corps will be immediately commissioned in the Field Artillery division of the Officers' Reserve Corps. To the best of our knowledge, nothing of the sort is contemplated by the War Department. I also call to your attention the fact that the Reserve Officers' Training Corps work is a four-year course for all men who do not reach their 21st birthday, and consequently the draft age, before their senior year...
Plans for a four-year military training course which would fit graduates for positions in the reserve army of officers have nearly been completed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Several of the regular army officers have conferred with Major Cole, head of military affairs at the Institute, in regard to including military training in the regular work throughout the four years. It is expected that if this course be established the Technology men drafted under the conscription bill will be assigned to the Institute and be allowed to finish their regular course while securing their military training...
There has been some talk of omitting for the graduating class this year all those traditional festivities which he served for other classes as the pleasantest occasion of the four-year course. It is doubtful whether any large purpose would be served by having 1917 pass form college unsung and unrejoiced. The German arms will not by one day be rendered less invincible. Nor will the members of the class be rendered more stoic for enduring the fortunes...
...their particular fields will be held before the regular time. They should lose no time in making such preparations and reviews as may be necessary. Less than forty-eight hours' notice was given of the final examinations in the department of history, government and economics, covering the students' four-year course...
Until the modifications of the War Department's four-year course which have been suggested by President Lowell can be officially introduced into Military Science and Tactics 1, there is little that can be done at the present time. On first glance it looks as if Harvard was lagging behind other colleges in training college men for reserve officers, but on the contrary Harvard, living up to her traditional reputation, is carefully searching for the most efficient economical method of making young men capable of leading a command. After the authorities have diverged from the well-beaten paths traversed...