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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Technology. Several of the regular army officers have conferred with Major Cole, head of military affairs at the Institute, in regard to including military training in the regular work throughout the four years. It is expected that if this course be established the Technology men drafted under the conscription bill will be assigned to the Institute and be allowed to finish their regular course while securing their military training. As the freshman class is already obliged to drill, the new course would not affect them, but the three upper classes would add drill and field work to their present schedule...
...Speaker avers that the President's selective draft bill cannot pass. Let us hope he is as good a prophet as he was when he declared last spring that the McLemore "scuttle" resolution was bound to win. Boston Post...
...equal chance. Harvard men have endorsed the principle of universal service by their patriotic actions of the last year. They can do an important additional service by preaching their doctrine to all they meet and by using their influence, however small, to force the passage of a universal service bill through Congress. Why should we serve alone? There is no answer...
...think that the policy of the administration in encouraging the training of the college students of the country with a view to supplying officers for the army to be mobilized under a selective draft bill was admirable. I am informed that practical difficulties have arisen preventing the plan from being fully carried out, but I have no doubt that the effect of the impetus already given will result in the effort of all college men to strive by hook or crook to fit themselves for commissions in the Reserve Officers' Corps. The work at Harvard, of course, meets the commendation...
This change was made when an amendment to the army appropriation bill was adopted by the Senate limiting the use of the camps to people with a "term of enlistment" prescribed by the Secretary of War. The ground for the proposal of the amendment was that although in peace days civilian training might be enough, now that the country is at war, military training should not be given to those men who are not willing to give their military services to the country in return. The measure has already passed the Senate...