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...United States Naval Reserve Officers' Training Corps is opened at the University to offer the opportunity for students to acquire knowledge of the sea and to pursue studies and training necessary for an understanding of the Navy and the Naval profession. The character of instruction and trading aims to equip the student for important national service in his chosen field of interest and activity and in his capacity of an influential and responsible citizen. It further equips the student for an appointment as a commissioned officer in the United States Naval Reserve...
Hollywood Insurrection. Agents of the U. S. Department of Justice, puttering dutifully about lurid Hollywood, Calif., discovered recently an armored truck in the garage of one Herbert Sandburn. Questioned, Mr. Sandburn volubly explained that a Mexican, Senor Benjamin Roqe, had commissioned him to equip four heavy trucks with armor plate-each truck to mount two one-pound cannon and four machine guns. Only one truck had been completed. Dissimulating their suspicions, assuring Mr. Sandburn that they believed him when he said the trucks were to be used for pay roll transport, the agents of the Department of Justice began...
...Committee voted, however, 15 to 1-the U. S. abstaining and Germany voting contra, mundum- that "peacetime effectives" be understood not to mean "trained reservists" or war material to equip them, but to include "military forces under the colors, police, forest guards and any other such organization . . . available without measures of mobilization...
...educational history before him would doubtless look upon the use of any such section of the curriculum as an emergency measure adopted by a people that found itself the victim of a great confusion resulting from an unprecedentedly rapid accumulation of knowledge. It alone will not educate men or equip them for the mastery of modern life. I suggest, therefore, a second field of inquiry...
...Another matter which may well be considered in this connection is the suggestion that the Student Council should equip and maintain a summer camp of philanthropic nature for poor boys in Boston and the neighborhood. A committee consisting of Alexander Donald '27, chairman, Lawrence Coolidge '27, L. F. Daley '27, Austin Lamont '27, A. J. Cassatt '27 and C. G. T. Lundell '27, has been appointed to investigate the possibilities of such a plan. Upon the report of this committee to the Student Council, it may well decide whether or not to support the plan, and if this is decided...