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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...final number enrolled in Military Science and Tactics 1 will decide whether Harvard remains in the van of the preparedness movement. The tradition of voluntary military service, born in the days of Revolutionary and Civil wars, was continued and strengthened by the formation of the Regiment last year. The failure to establish two units of the reserve officers' training corps at Harvard will shatter the tradition. The country must have reserve officers to lead the volunteer units and Harvard, instead of showing one hundred and fifty men in training, ought to show her proportionate share, six hundred future reserve officers...
...course Military Science and Tactics 1. As the War Department at Washington requires 100 as a minimum before the course can qualify as a unit in the Reserve Officers' Training Corps this means that so far the University, which last year took the lead in the intercollegiate preparedness movement, has only a little more than one unit to date...
Contrary to the expectation of many members of the University there will be no voluntary organization similar to last year's Regiment this year. Enrolment in the course is the only means by which undergraduates may show active sympathy with the preparedness movement in the University as applied to the officers' training corps. For Seniors, Juniors and Sophomores no previous military training is necessary in order to enroll, but Freshmen are required to consult Captain Cordier at Weld 3 by next Tuesday before they will be permitted to take the course...
Over one hundred students met in New Lecture Hall yesterday afternoon at the first meeting of Military Science and Tactics I. This enrolment is scarcely large enough to assure the course a huge success in its co-operation with the Reserve Officers' Training Corps movement and Captain Constant Cordier laid great emphasis on the necessity of those who were interested in the welfare of the preparedness movement at the University bringing more undergraduates into the course. For every hundred men who engage in this work, the government will detail a non-commissioned officer to assist in carrying out the technical...
...bespeak for the training camps, the support of every Harvard man. I regard enrolment therein as a solemn duty resting upon all properly qualified men. I especially urge the undergraduate body to take the lead in this movement, so full of hope for the future of America...