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...future. Now is not the time for indecision or the adoption of half-way measures. The University, with the aid of Captain Cordier, presents to Harvard men in the unit of the R. O. T. C. the best and most comprehensive method of answering this question. As the Regiment of last year trained raw recruits to be privates, so Military Science 1, which comprises the instruction of the unit will teach men to become officers. The work of the unit will mean serious attention to all requirements and it is not designed to give men a pleasant form of afternoon...
...students themselves had more than demonstrated their fitness for such recognition. No more striking evidences of the resolute service which college men are ready to give, and of the patriotism they feel, has ever been offered in time of peace than the organization and faithful drill of the Harvard Regiment surely testified. Where there was such will to be of service, surely it would have been a pity to deny full recognition. There will be a great deal closer sense of relationship to the Federal War Department among the men of the regiment under their new terms of enlistment...
...present the tentative plan is to drill two battalions of the regiment in the Gymnasium and one battalion in the Living Room of the Union. During the first weeks one hour drills will be held daily for the different companies. These drills will be held in the afternoon, except for one or two companies which, if arrangements can be made, will drill in the morning. The one hour lecture included in the course will come on Thursday at 1.30 o'clock. The hours of the section meetings will be announced later and will be arranged to suit the convenience...
Captain Beith was just under the maximum age limit for enlistment at the out-break of the war and immediately enrolled in the South Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, which went into training at Aldershot in the fall of 1914. The regiment remained in training for six months and was finally sent to the front in the spring of 1915 as members of the first detachment of England's ability and courage won him a commission and he rose rapidly to the rank of captain...
...fund is being raised by the graduates to provide for any immediate expenses incurred by the unit. This will make the regiment independent of Government appropriations and supplies, in case of either delay or shortage...