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...Student Council Committee on Military Affairs in a statement regarding the plans of the University Regiment outlines the year's program which will have its start on Friday, December 17, when President Lowell will address a mass meeting in the Union. Besides the usual drill and rifle practice, members of the Regiment are expected to take two courses, one a correspondence course given by the War Department, and the other a half-course on military science, which will be offered by the University the second half-year. The complete statement follows...
...Student Council Committee on Military Affairs has exhaustively taken up the question of the most advantageous method of conducting the Harvard Regiment. After consulting President Lowell, General Wood and several other authorities, the Committee has decided that in the short time between now and June it will be impossible to complete the training for officers. Therefore the proposed plan has been designed to teach as much as possible, but primarily to arouse interest in military affairs, and to teach each individual how much there is to learn and how little he knows. It is hoped that the proposed scheme will...
...soon as the weather improves, the drill will be cut down and will be held outdoors. Open formation and minor tactics will then be emphasized. The hours of drill will in all probability be from 4 to 6 and from 7 to 9 o'clock; members of the Regiment, therefore, will have ample opportunity to choose their hours of drill, and the days which they prefer. The drill will be in charge of a regular army officer...
...colleges in Massachusetts have today organized courses in military science under the supervision of army commissioned officers. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has compulsory drill for freshmen, while upper-class men act as officers in the regiment. Massachusetts Agricultural College has compulsory drill for all undergraduates and several battalions drill in the large gymnasium all winter...
...battalion of four batteries. In view of the splendid showing made by Harvard men at the summer camps--a showing better than was made by either Yale or Princeton,--it is perhaps not too much to hope that enough men will answer the call to form an entire infantry regiment of 1200. This would mean that a little more than one-quarter of all the men in the University would enlist,--a number which seems reasonable since the military drill will in no way interfere with scholastic work or athletics...