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...screamed "WAR" in the CRIMSON, Friday, April 6, 1917, did not find the College either startled or unprepared. Since January of the previous year, over a thousand undergraduates in high-collared uniforms and campaign hats had been preparing for this moment, first in the unofficial and no-credit Harvard Regiment, and later in the ROTC which was set up during the summer...
...which threatened America long before the nation went into action, precipitated among the student body a demand for some sort of military training at the College. Thus on January 10, 1916 the Harvard Regiment was formed. The original unit was drawn up purely on a voluntary basis, and bayonets, belts, and rifles "of the 1898 Springfield model" were provided by the government. Drills were held outdoors until winter necessitated the use of the old Hemingway Gymnasium and the baseball cage. With the inauguration of the official ROTC, a half-course known as Military Science and Tactics, training at Harvard went...
...Labor Day weekend the U.S. tennis season ended with the National finals at Forest Hills. One of the entrants, listing his home tennis club as the 36th Armored Regiment, indicated pretty well the real finality of the event. There have been no Davis Cup matches since Sir Norman Brookes took his Australians home to war in 1939. The sacred turf of England's Wimbledon has been torn by bombs and turned into a pasture. The general bleakness this week overtook the West Side Tennis Club's stadium, whose eleven flagpoles used to be none too many...
...World War I a Scottish regiment charged into a hopeless action with the cry: "Marmalade forever...
...Rundstedt got his first military training in swank cadet schools, where stiff-backed officers and crop-headed noncoms broke young men and rebuilt them to the Army pattern. He was a captain and company commander when World War I began, went to the front with a crack infantry regiment. He distinguished himself. With his background and training he could not have done anything else. But he also showed a fine soldier's brain, and when the war ended he was chief of staff of an army corps, a higher leap than any other German general now fighting had achieved...