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...boast of a larger number of men engaged in military training than are taking the military course at Harvard. The time for reasoning is past. Three hundred new registrations before Tuesday will place Harvard above the preparatory school class. Enroll now and preserve the spirit of the Harvard Regiment...
Word has been received at the University office that Clyde Fairbanks Maxwell '14, was reported missing on July 3, 1916, in the first engagements of the battle of the Somme. He was a second lieutenant in the Tenth Battalion of the Essex Regiment, British Army...
According to the officers of his regiment the attack started at 3 o'clock in the morning. Maxwell's captain reported that at four o'clock he was seen "wounded in the face but still organizing bombing attacks and handing over prisoners"; and an hour later, as reported by his sergeant, he was "very hard pressed but still fighting on." The ground was bitterly contested and the dead were buried hastily at night, without the usual opportunity to search them for identification. The battalion entered the battle eleven hundred strong, of whom only 98 answered roll call that night. Maxwell...
...first meeting of Military Science and Tactics 1 will be held in the New Lecture Hall today at 1.30 o'clock. Captain Cordier will explain in full all matters relating to the course and will outline plans for the reorganization of the Harvard Regiment according to War Department regulations. If he is able to reach Cambridge in time for the meeting, Major Henry Lee Higginson '55 will also speak. All members of the Regiment last year, those who have already enrolled in the course and all men interested in military training of any sort are invited to be present...
Provided enough men enrol in the course the War Department will fully equip the Regiment at its own expense. A minimum of 100 men is required before the course can qualify as a unit in the Reserve Officers' Training Corps. For every 100 men above that--up to 400--there will be a non-commissioned officer detailed to the University to assist in the practical instruction...