Word: scheming
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Training Unit at Harvard as drawn up by Captain Cordier is comprehensive in every detail. Although many difficulties such as not interfering with the regular College curriculum had to be overcome, Captain Cordier has succeeded in rounding out a course of instruction which is far ahead of any similar scheme established at any other university. There is no doubt about the work in the training unit being serious. More time will be given to theoretical and practical instruction than was given to the Regiment last year, but undergraduates must realize that the country is under constant danger of war. This...
...evening period from 7 to 9. Arrangements will be made to provide a buffet supper in the junior officers' mess room for a small charge for those who attend both the afternoon and evening sessions. This supper will be provided by the ward room mess following the same scheme as in the case of the drills last spring...
Knowing this, we must lay our plans so that an adequate system of military preparedness will give us our surest guarantee of peace. A scheme of training which is hastily planned and insufficient may prove worse than nothing. We must trust to the authorities of the nation to guard our honor. We must trust to the authorities of the University to formulate a plan whereby we shall be prepared to defend that honor...
Yesterday's vote resulted in a majority for universal training surprisingly large. It is doubtful if even the closest follower of opinion in the University could have forecast the result. Three quarters of all the men voting expressed their wish for a universal scheme of preparedness. Harvard's stand has been strongly taken. On perhaps no other question of so controversial a nature could an overwhelming vote be obtained...
...whether Harvard approves of the Chamberlain Bill, but whether she will go on record as standing for the principle of universal training, and as believing in the individual's responsibility to the state. It is our hope that the opinion of Harvard will be over-whelmingly for a scheme of adequate defense. At present the military authorities at Washington are in an apparent, hopeless muddle concerning the solution of the military situation. A changing body of army officials and political leaders are trying in vain to work out an adequate scheme of defense. Every intelligent opinion from any group...