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...This new R. O. T. C. plan is the sensible and efficient way of using the present to prepare for the future-sensible because it does not interfere with the primary status of the university as an institution of higher learning and efficient because it promises to turn out officers possessing a broad foundation of general knowledge and with the practical training which modern warfare demands. The course will make no appeal to the student who seeks the easiest way to a college diploma. At best, the process of becoming an Army officer is serious business. Only by the hardest...
...expected plan goes through, examinations will be given in all departments except those listed under Group II in the elective pamphlet, which include the sciences as well as mathematics. Members of the Class of 1922 will be the first men to be affected by the new plan, since men in the present three upper classes will continue under the system which...
...Cambridge mass meeting to take place in Sanders Theatre at 7 o'clock this evening. Brigadier-General Charles H. Cole, 26th Division, A. E. F., and N. Penrose Hallowell '97, executive chairman of the New England Victory Liberty Loan Committee, will speak. All members of the University are invited to attend the meeting, which is being held under the auspices of the Cambridge Liberty Loan Committee. Professor W. B. Munro will preside...
...except in a few cases where the nature of the studies makes the plan unnecessary, be given a general examination toward the close of their Senior year and shall be required to display at this examination a reasonable proficiency in some general field of college work. This is a new idea in American education, but it probably represents an important step in the right direction. Boston Herald...
There are undoubtedly a certain number of men who will take exception to the new program on the familiar grounds that it will "ruin Harvard as an academic institution by turning it into a veritable military college." The fallacy of this argument is very clear. In the first place as long as military work remains elective it cannot in any way effect the status of Harvard as an institution of learning. No one need take up the artillery training or other military courses during his undergraduate life in the future, any more than it is now compulsory...