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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...many reasons the work of the Regiment reflected great credit on its members but particularly because the entire plan was originated and developed without any voluntary aid on the part of the War Department. This year the tables are turned and the War Department has offered to establish one or more units of the reserve officers' training 'corps' at Harvard. Therefore a different character of responsibility rests upon the students, it is to recognize the value of the War Department's move and convince the military authorities by a large enrolment in the new course that the undergraduates desire military...
Besides gaining credit towards his degree, a student, after a two-years course in military science will be recommended to be placed on the list of reserve officers. The great value of such a plan is evident, for by taking those courses which are included in the regular curriculum a man may fit himself to take a commission in the reserve army in time of war. Previous to this new plan of creating college units of the reserve officers' training corps, anyone wishing a commission would have been compelled to have taken an additional course in some military school...
...great factor of interference with the plan of the coaches is military exigence. A good many guards and tackles and "backs" are in camp or on the border with the militia. Should not a proper sense of values move even a stern and warlike Government to release them to the greater service? Because a college president becomes President of the United States, must he revise the order of the grades in the academic climax: For God-for country-and for the dear old college? Let the boys come home, to learn the greater strategy of line bucking, end running...
Since Harvard by its example of last year with its college regiment, and by the expressed wish of the University authorties, offered a field for such military training, there will be in the future as commandant of the reserve officers' training corps at Cambridge. In accordance with the plan a new department known as the Military Department has been added to the University, and Captain Constant Cordier, U. S. A., has been designated by the Secretary of War, by direction of the President, as professor of militaray science and tactics and a regular member of the faculty, as well...
This misunderstanding has already caused unfavorable comment from many graduates, and I assume a great many members of the faculty would look still more askance at such a plan...