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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...meet the national needs the University has been asked to offer several complete courses in engineering for members of the S. A. T. C., and a special course in mechanical engineering for members of the Naval Unit. All these courses will begin October 1, and will last for two years. They will be divided into eight terms of three months each. During the first two terms the military instruction will be 11 hours a week, and thereafter it will be reduced to six. Problems and Issues of the War will be included as a part of these courses...
...government has embarked upon a new policy of securing officers for our army. The system of irregular training schools held only when conditions demanded has been replaced by a plan involving a series of camps, which will begin every month and which will largely depend, for enrolment, upon members of the S. A. T. C. The problem of officering our rapidly increasing military forces has long been a grave one; the extension of the draft ages has made it all the more serious. The new system offers a definite method of solving the problem, and as such deserves the strong...
...replaced the R. O. T. C. The vast changes with which American universities begin the year 1918-19 are revolutionary. Where a year ago the academic life of the nation was becoming an active aid in the prosecution of the war, it is now a distinct part of the government's military machinery. Harvard, together with almost 400 other colleges and universities is a changed institution. This new character is to be welcomed as a notable advance in the service to the nation...
...Perhaps Harvard has a better scheme." The Roll of Honor recently set up is not a better, but merely another scheme; and one does not exclude the other. While the number of our dead is still comparatively small, would it not be well to adopt the London plan, and begin at once to place the pictures of the men on the Honor Roll in immediate proximity to the Roll itself? --The Aliemni Bulletin...
...football songs which will give the judges a basis on which to select the best chorus. After the winning singers have been named, their leader will be presented with the cup and baton and will conduct the singing of the three choruses together. The dance of the evening will begin about 8.30 o'clock and end promptly at 12.30. Two orchestras under Bert Lowe of Boston will play in the Common and Dining Room of Smith Hall, and the piazza on the south side of the building will be thrown open to the dancers. Punch will be served throughout...