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...that he has been offered a specific chance for useful service over seas. Such chances are necessarily limited and difficult to locate. Where found, they require various qualifications on the part of those selected to fill them. The mere acts of getting in touch and of coming to some sort of terms with the various associations and government agencies which control reconstruction work on the other side, are sure to cost much uncertainty and loss of time...
...idea of forming some sort of an organization to give University men an opportunity in the field of foreign re-construction came as a result of a lecture by Dr. R. M. Storey '08 in Phillips Brooks House on March 12. Dr. Storey, who had been the head of the Y. M. C. A. in Siberia in 1917-1918, spoke on the great opportunities which were offered to college men for reconstruction and a desire to take an active part in it. It is believed that many other men at college now would like to do foreign reconstruction work...
...obvious that each university cannot reasonably be expected to maintain R. O. T. C. units in all branches of the service; and on the other hand, all colleges cannot seize upon the same branch of service to the exclusion of fancied less desirable ones. Heterogeneous action of this sort would inevitably result in a bad proportionment of trained officers among the various divisions of military service...
...have other fields as their ultimate aim, a year in the Merchant Marine would not be wasted. Many men have found that their adventurous spirit was whetted by war experiences, and are not content to resume the uneventful existence of their pre-war days. For men of this sort, the Merchant Marine, with its voyages and experiences through the seven seas, is the one vehicle by which such restless young Americans can gratify the spirit of pioneering awakened by the world...
...should be noted that such a memorial would fill what amounts to a crying need in the College today. Harvard stands almost alone among the large universities in the lack of a University Theatre of some sort, and yet she is recognized as the leading American college in actual accomplishment in the theatrical field. She has contributed more men that make the theatre worth while than any other college...