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...earnest consideration of this University a plan of academic training throughout the year, which will not only place Harvard among leaders in educational reform, but which will go far toward a more complete conception of war-time needs. This is not peace and we cannot be satisfied with a normal college life. The true sphere of the university is the provision of academic training, as much as possible of it at all times, but the very maximum at this period in the world's affairs...
...luxury, now is a poor time to buy it, because prices are inflated and one will not get very much for one's money. The same money, if one will save it, will buy more after the war is over and prices have returned to a normal level. A Liberty Bond is as good as cash and can readily be turned into cash. Besides, if one will save the interest one will have more dollars to spend later on than now. This, together with the fact that each dollar will purchase more then than now, makes it to the individual...
...numerous and jobs relatively few. To spend money now while the Government is spending so much is only to increase abnormally the total spending and inflate prices. To spend it then, when the Government reduces its expenditures, will tend to keep up the total rate of buying to a normal level and therefore prevent stagnation and depression. The money which is invested in Liberty Bonds will serve as a reservoir into which our surplus purchasing power may now be diverted and stored, to be released again when the war is over...
...school year 1917-18 opens with 292 students, a little more than one-third of normal registration. Perhaps we may be proud of this registration, reflecting that after offering to the service of the country substantially every able-bodied man in the School, maintaining entrance requirements intact and rejecting for deficiency in scholarship the normal percentage of those examined last year, the School is still going forward with a select student body amply sufficient to maintain its best traditions...
...pointed out the fact that if crew work is to continue on a firm basis during the period of the war, it must be put on that basis in this, its trial year; that to do this all men must put their efforts into the practice as though normal conditions existed. He stated that no formal training rules had yet been laid down and that no training table would probably be established, but that candidates would be expected to keep physically...