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Sooner or later a state of armed neutrality will be adopted by the United States. This means that war will be decided by the one who shoots first. These simple facts mean one thing, concentrated and persevering study in the lessons of preparedness...
There will be no enlistments at M. I. T. as a unit, the objection being that such a unit would mean the concentration of material of the same kind, the diffusion of which would insure its better utilization. But for those men who are desirous of joining the army the committee recommends the Engineers' Corps, Coast Artillery and Ordnance Department...
Most of those who talk nonchalantly about our entering the war do not seem to have the remotest realization of what that step would mean in every branch of our daily life. An open breach with the Central Powers would almost certainly be followed by a call for the mobilization of a half-million men. The response is not doubtful; twice that number could probably be enlisted within a very short time. But the sudden withdrawal of so large a body from the productive activities of the country would almost surely upset our whole economic organization, all the more...
This explains why Harvard and the other colleges are making such elaborate preparations for an emergency which is sure to arise if war should come. They realize that for them war may mean a general cessation of academic instruction, the turning of dormitories into barracks and of athletic fields into drill grounds. They know that the best service the colleges could render would be to transform themselves at once into so many training schools for officers. At Cambridge and elsewhere the authorities have foreseen this eventuality and are ready for it if it should come. --Boston Herald...
...will have among Harvard men during this critical period when there should be no discordant note of hesitancy is harmful and intolerable. For this reason alone the CRIMSON disagrees with and denounces the spirit of this organization which hinders steps toward immediate national preparedness, the delay of which may mean ruin and dishonor...