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Dates: during 1910-1919
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There are few good ideas which occur everywhere simultaneously. Here is one which loses none of its value for Harvard and other colleges because they did not happen to think of it first. We do not undertake to suggest the precise method of making it applicable to the Harvard men in service; but the necessary machinery, utilizing perhaps the home addresses of men in service, perhaps the agency of the American University Union in Europe, perhaps both, does not seem to lie beyond the inventive power of an individual or group of men to whom the idea of giving...
...candidates, will be obliged to report at Camp Devens for training in Class B quota, and not at Camp Grant, as first ordered. Upon completing the three months' course at Devens, instead of receiving second lieutenancies immediately, the men will serve as enlisted men until suitable vacancies occur...
...appointments as second lieutenants in the third officers training school at Camp Devens. The names of the successful candidates for commissions were yesterday made public by Adjutant General McCain through the Committee on Information. These men will be carried on the list of eligible officers, and whenever suitable vacancies occur, appointments will be made from their number...
...these questions, should provoke us to take our bearings afresh, and consider our courses anew; but the conditions brought about by our entering the conflict are not the best cause the conditions are abnormal and the results obtained by trying something new are not certainly those that would occur in time of peace...
...training is always practical, the value therefore is as great in war as in peace. No matter how the country is situated, transactions must always take place, even though on a reduced scale. People must buy and sell whether or not their countrymen are under arms. Whatever change does occur in any sort of dealings rises from attempts to economize, to provide only what is really necessary, and to follow out the wishes of the Government. The demand for men with experience, therefore, becomes all the greater as the necessity for curtailing increases. Those who understand commercial transactions...