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This latest development of the growth of the preparedness movement has a real significance for Harvard men. Opportunities for training are now offered students in three branches of warfare. For men who prefer army service, there is Plattsburg; for those inclined to aeronautics, there is the new flying corps; and, thirdly, the chance to practice fighting methods on shipboard...
...Harvard and Military Training" by J. A. L. Blake '02. The former vindicates the purpose of the Regiment with the remark that "Harvard men realize that the College is only of value as it serves the nation." The latter favors enlistment in the militia, with the University courses and Plattsburg as supplementary work. Mr. Blake evidently considers the college man a distinct specie, for he says, "The College man will meet in the militia... many men of a different type from his, and that on a footing of absolute equality." The college man who needs to look for institutions...
...next batch of enrolment blanks is going to New York on Friday, March 24. We wish to send down on that date the names of at least two hundred recruits, to show that Harvard, and the Harvard Regiment are backing General Wood's scheme of the Plattsburg Camps...
There will be someone in the Regimental office from nine o'clock every morning until five in the afternoon to receive blanks and answer questions. A. B. ROOSEVELT '17, For the Plattsburg Committee...
Several second and third-year Law School students have been elected to help the Military Training Camp Committee secure enrolments for the Plattsburg and Ogelthorpe camps next summer. All Law School students who expect to attend one of these military camps, may obtain enrolment blanks and further information from any of the following committee: R. B. Wigglesworth 3L., chairman; T. R. Armstrong 3L., J. W. Baker 3L., J. E. Bennett 3L., E. S. Bentley 2L., L. Clayton 2L., E. J. D. Cross 2L., C. P. Curtis, Jr. 2L., D. E. Dunbar 2L., W. L. G. Gibson 3L., R. D. Gile...