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Dates: during 1910-1919
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According to statements in yesterday's papers, the War Department has announced a plan under which it is expected that military training will be started next fall in practically all of the colleges over the country. Enlistments will be voluntary and officers to train the students are to be provided by the Government. If possible the War Department plans to furnish equipment to every college that enrols 100 or more undergraduates above...
...Students under 18 and therefore not legally eligible for enlistment, will be encouraged to enroll in the training units. Provision will be made for co-ordinating the reserve officers' training corps system which exists in about one-third of the collegiate institutions, with this broader plan...
...latest announcement of the War Department concerning the work of the college R. O. T. C.'s next year, as reprinted in another column from yesterday's Boston papers, brings practical results, it will be a cause of general satisfaction. By this plan, every college with an enrollment of over 100 will have a training unit, recognized, equipped, and officered by the War Department. Students will not be required to join, but when they do they will be regularly enlisted and subject to the call of the President. Only the gravest emergency, however, will bring a call before an undergraduate...
...those who have not done so sign up at once. Delay profits nothing. The sooner there is a large enrolment, the better will the authorities be able to plan for a more complete and efficient course of training...
Captain F. W. Moore '93 said it was impossible to plan a definite schedule for football until the program for military work is announced. It seems certain that there will be a ruling that no men not in the R. O. T. C. shall take part in athletics next year. Dean Briggs plans to meet the representatives of Yale and Princeton later in the week and some definite understanding in regard to the attitude of the three colleges towards football will be reached...