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...should have war tomorrow the biggest problem confronting this country would not be that of getting men or uniforms or rifles or machine guns. Our industries are today better organized for the production of equipment and munitions than they have been for 50 years. The most acute problem would be that of supplying a half-million men with the necessary officers. Nearly 30,000 of these would be needed and needed immediately, for without officers even the rudiments of drill and organization cannot be carried through. Right there, as the experience of other countries in the war has shown, would...
Everyone doubtless knows of the man who burned down his house in order to roast his pig. His problem symbolizes some aspects of our war problem. Let the roasting of the pig stand for the object of a war, let the man stand for the American people, and the house for the American civilization which is a-building. Now let us suppose the man is deliberating whether he will roast the pig, and, if so, whether by setting fire to the house. Similarly, the first question for the American people to settle is, "What are the objects...
...order to maintain an international position of dignity, the entire country's attention must be focused upon the problem of developing adequate military and naval forces in the miminum period of time. War may never come, but prepared we must be or disaster awaits...
Harvard's part in the great problem is clear, and already President Lowell and the College authorities have begun preparations for the accomplishment of the University's part. As the two telegrams in today's issue state, a reserve officers' training unit will be established at once. Military Science and Tactics 1 will be the nucleus of the program of training, and additional instruction will probably be included in this single course, or further military courses will be introduced according to future arrangements with the War Department. All students who wish to join the training unit by taking Military Science...
Since the university has no very direct connection with the business world the class of 1915 maintains a class employment bureau which, however, is a graduate organization both in origin and maintenance. The present senior class has started an innovation by taking hold of the problem while it is still an undergraduate body. In former years various business houses have tried to get graduates, but there has been no way to reach the undergraduates except individually. The new system is expected to act as a medium of communication between...