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...centre, and the Yale Naval Unit is so far the largest established. At present the enrolment in the S. A. T. C. is divided as follows: artillery, 600; naval unit, 500; laboratory corps, 300; signal corps, 200; and medical unit about 100. The university's exactions of the entering student are as strict as ever and it has declined to admit any who have not passed the college entrance board examinations...
...activity. Since it is the duty of the University to maintain as much of its normal life as is compatible with the War Department's program, and since the publications form no insignificant portion of that life, they should be maintained wherever possible. Not only do they serve the student body but they also offer to many men opportunities in acquiring experience in journalism. The war cannot becloud the fact that its end will see Harvard and its student institutions continuing. There are therefore advantages, real advantages to be derived from the present competitions...
...problem of officering our rapidly increasing military forces has long been a grave one; the extension of the draft ages has made it all the more serious. The new system offers a definite method of solving the problem, and as such deserves the strong support of the entire student body...
...planned, the S. A. T. C. provides for direct Government control of the greater part of the student body. In addition, by receiving selected high school graduates each college will make full use of all its equipment and organization. A double advantage is thereby secured, in that colleges will be able to continue actively their was service, while the nation will possess a tangible, ever replenished store-house of future officer material. That the American college will not suspend its academic activities during the war is alone of immense advantage. We have seen the English and French universities go down...
...Military instruction under officers and non-commissioned officers of the Army will be provided in every institution of college grade, which enrolls for the instruction 100 or more able-bodied students over the age of eighteen. The necessary military equipment will, so far as possible, be provided by the Government. There will be created a military training unit in each institution. Enlistment will be purely voluntary but all students over the age of eighteen will be encouraged to enlist. The enlistment will constitute the student a member of the Army of the United States liable to active duty...