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Under-staffed and over-powered by the sudden influx of ERC applicants, the First Service Command has been laboring long and late over the long-expected ERC orders for Harvard and neighboring colleges, the Army's public relations division announced last night...
...Harvey graduated at midyears and will not don the Crimson for the coming campaign. His fine play around at second base as well his heavy stick work will be sorely missed. Bill Barnes, outfielder and end on the football squad, also departed in January. Thayer Drake, shortstop, is in ERC...
Moving to end a period of watchful waiting by anxious ERC men in the College, the First Service Command announced yesterday that it hopes all orders will be sent out by the end of this week...
Originally conceived as a means of tapping the pool of officer material resident in the colleges before the Navy skimmed off the cream, the ERC has never been particularly benevolent toward its members. Within the past three weeks, it has outdone itself in making things uncomfortable for men in the Reserve Corps, coming out with four official statements, three of which have directly contradicted one another. This gross inefficiency has resulted in more than the expected amount of confusion, and has played havoc with the farsighted plans of colleges and students...
...first War Department statement on the ERC said that all men who started their second term before December 31 would be allowed to complete the term. A second order, directly contradicting the first, came out two weeks later, informing the hapless students that the date had been moved up from December 31 to January 27. In the interim, orders had begun to arrive to many students, only to have them rescinded when the later order was issued. Within the last two days, the War Department has again directly reversed itself, changing the date from January 27 back to December...