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...much larger efficiency, be still more popular and valuable? In asking this question there is neither attempt nor desire to minimize the great service which Harvard has rendered the nation. The men it educated at the Fresh Pond trenches and at Barre made an excellent showing at the subsequent Plattsburg, and they are making an even better showing today as officers in the National Army. But Harvard's camp was an infantry camp to train infantry officers. Artillery, signal corps and engineer officers are just as urgently needed. Let the colleges devoted to these varying interests poor their resources...
...value of summer training of some sort can not be doubted; it is proved by the graduates of college corps now in the service. Exactly as the Plattsburg camps of 1915 and 1916 laid the foundation of the training of an enormous number of men and officers now in the service, so must the colleges today supply trained men to step in when the others are thinned out. We must, however, work as far as possible together, and not allow university ties to affect the training of the college man. The above plan has disadvantages which, upon investigation, may prove...
...tobacco and shower baths. The Harvard undergraduate has gone to bed every night knowing that he would probably get up safe in the morning. He has not worried about life. He has not take any risk. And, Yet he doesn't want to get up an hour earlier. At Plattsburg and at Barre last summer he did it, and it didn't hurt...
...team if one is formed. As soon as the reports from this canvass are completed, it will be known whether there is sufficient interest to organize a team. The captain-elect of this season's swimming squad, R. E. Jackson '19, was commissioned a lieutenant at the last Plattsburg award, and none of the regulars of last year's team have returned to College...
...temporarily losing some of our best friends, but, on the other hand, we envy them their fortune. So we must say farewell and wish them the best of luck. They are going to represent Harvard on the field of battle, following the footsteps of the Plattsburg vanguards, and we hope to meet them all when our turn comes to join the colors...