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...would be foolish to maintain that Harvard has not contributed its share to the war charitable works which have appealed to the student body. It would be just as foolish, however, to maintain that the University has done enough. As long as the war lasts and there is need to support these ex-military undertakings, we shall do our part. Today we are asked to give what we can to aid stricken Halifax. What that city needs above all things is money. Conditions there are such that the entire East must respond to the call for help in order...
...same time to help the country. I think that there might be formed a military college with a three-years' course on the same general lines as West Point. I would admit boys of the age of sixteen, physically fit, without examination, merely dropping them on their failing to maintain a proper standard in their stud- ies. During their three years in college I should have them under strict military discipline, with a prescribed military course, lectures in the morning, practical work in the afternoon. At the age of nineteen, on completing their studies, they should be well prepared...
...States and the direct representative of the Chief of Staff. Associated with the director of training and training committee are the British and French military attaches, Generals Maclachlan and Vignal, and officer specialists and advisers of both Allied Armies. The functions of the training committee are as follows: To maintain close relations with expeditionary forces abroad and with troops undergoing training in the United States with a view to co-ordinating training to the end that instruction may be progressive; to prepare plans and policies connected with training; to supervise and co-ordinate functions of central schools and divisional, tactical...
...military powers of University 1 have announced a new and stringent system of demerits in order to maintain that discipline in the Corps which is essential to the success of any military organization. At first sight these regulations, as laid down in General Orders No. 11, may appear a trifle severe; military probation for a few cuts and a missing button is a rather heavy penalty. In a way such radical methods have caused skeptics to believe that the disciplinary backbone of the Regiment was in bad need of bracing...
...immediate danger is past, then the Rusian crisis must be regarded as black as ever. But judging from the present reports of the amazing and unexpected success of the conservative elects, a situation has been created which offers the Allies a chance to strengthen the Kerensky government, and thereby maintain au unbroken Russian front against the Toutonic Powers...