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...member of the Harvard Regiment who is desirous of attending the Plattsburg Camps, but who is unable to pay his own expenses, should submit an application in writing to Professor Theodore Lyman '97, Jefferson Laboratory. Such cases will be considered in order of their relative standing in the Regiment; i.e., the men who have been regular in their attendance at drills and other formations will be given the preference, all things considered, but every case will received careful considerations...
Less than five months have elapsed since the organization of the Regiment, scarcely four of which have been devoted to military instruction; yet within that time the Regiment has developed a relative efficiency that is most extraordinary...
...tramp of a thousand men marching today in the Harvard Regiment answered many a challenge. Have college students, more and more favored by circumstance, become so lost in seeking personal comfort and private success that they have no time for unselfish service? The regiment's regular ranks and its well-ordered marching told of many hours devoted to drill in the midst of busy weeks in winter and spring. From the day of their enlistment to their final review this morning the men have worked conscientiously to serve not themselves but their country. Has Harvard's tradition of restraint, which...
Answering many a challenge, the regiment was also a living challenge itself. It called to a halt the extremists of pacifism. If those who would not have our nation prepared to meet the demands of war hold an ideal which refuses sanction to such qualities as the regiment has developed in Harvard men what is their ideal worth? Can it foster anything else but Inertia? The regiment, on the other hand, was the embodiment of ideals linked with real forces. It showed that it had begun to effect that co-ordination of moral with physical might which...
...gain public applause, they entered to help prepare themselves for an hour of national need. Their enrolment, the manner in which they have discharged their duties, their appearance today in the Stadium incarnated Harvard spirit at its best and its broadest. All honor and long life to the Harvard Regiment...