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Other members of the University who are interested in this signal corps work, and who desire to enlist are to attend the opening meeting of the class which will be held about May 7. Full particulars and information will be given in the CRIMSON at that time...
...Corps to note that the War Department does not desire at this time to have any men in the Reserve Officers' Training Corps who are not going in for intensive training with the full understanding that they are to be officers. Inasmuch as those men who intend to enlist in the Corps will have to make up in a short time a considerable amount of work which the men now enrolled have already covered, Captain Cordier stated last night that they would find it to their advantage to do certain text-book assignments during the vacation. The work should cover...
...nation's resources are not being used to the best advantage when men who might make good officers enlist as privates, where they serve no greater purpose than other men without the qualifications of leadership. Nor is it conservation of resources when good landsmen from the inland country volunteer for patrol boat work because they have always had a vague yearning towards the sea; and when men who can walk with equilibrium essay to fly. It does the nation small good to grow seasick for patriotism, or to wreck a delicate machine with unskilled, though ready loyalty. The nation needs...
...been affected to a very great extent by the present war, according to statements received from those respective countries. In most cases the universities have been able to run with greatly reduced registration; some have had to stop altogether and some have had enough extra men, too young to enlist, to extent their registration almost to the same extent as it was before...
...attendance at McGill has decreased very considerably especially in the upper classes where men are old enough to enlist, but, as it has happened this year, the attendance has increased which makes it look as if we had not lost so many students after all: As a matter of fact, the difference in the number between this year and that of 1914 is less than 500: this notwithstanding the fact that considerably over 600 of our undergraduates have enlisted since the commencement...