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...officially announced by the military office last night that the new company officers and non-commissioned officers who are to be appointed at the end of the week will not take office until next Monday. This is in order to allow the Corps to remain under its original officers until after it has been inspected by the War Department inspector on Friday...
...various branches of the Officers' Reserve Corps, medical, quartermaster, etc.; 9 are in the Naval Reserve Force; 13 hold commissions in the regular army, navy, and marines; and the remaining 18 are members of the militia of the various states. The list of fields of service in the non-military line is ever more extended. The Council of National Defense, the American Red Cross, and the Belgian Relief Committee are served by the majority of the 57 men under this division, but the various boards at Washington, such as the Shipping Board, the Foreign and Domestic Commerce Board...
There is no more influential non-political group of men of equal size in our country than Harvard men. They wield as individuals and as a body great influence over the public opinion of their community...
...national situation calmly and not allow the present military propaganda to urge them into work for which they are not adapted. President Hibben believes that there are many reasons to justify men holding steadily to their present tasks, whether by remaining in the university or by taking up other non-military work...
...wishes of parents, the special obligations of some students to their parents the lack of an imperative call on such men for patriotic service--all these reasons fully justify many men in holding steadily to their present tasks, whether by remaining in the university or taking up other non-military work. I think we all must realize that a certain insidious form of silent pressure is brought to bear on such men to follow the crowd and enlist somewhere, somehow. A few men are anxious to enlist in order to avoid conscription. This attitude is in many ways reprehensible...