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...official letter signed by President Lowell applying for the immediate establishment of a reserve officers' training unit at Harvard was sent to Washington last night. It is expected that the War Department will send the official confirmation within the next two days. Advice has come from Washington that there will be no objections to establishing a unit at Harvard, and by the beginning of the second half-year whatever military instruction is announced will have the sanction of the War Department, and the work completed will be credited to the students on the records of the War Department...
...case of a declaration of war the College authorities plan to have an officers' training unit organized here before the War Department is able to form similar training schools in different parts of the country. In this way undergraduates will be given a better and earlier opportunity to train themselves for commissions in a volunteer force. The course of training now under consideration would extend over a period of six months, and on completing such a course any average college man would be sufficiently well fitted to be a second lieutenant in a volunteer organization...
...mass meeting of all men interested in the formation of a flying unit of the Aviation Section, Signal Officers' Reserve Corps, United States Army, will be held in the Trophy Room of the Union tomorrow evening at 7 o'clock. The graduate chairman and organizer of last year's undergraduate flying corps will address the meeting, explaining the purposes of the proposed new organization and the nature of the work. Application blanks by which the Government may be given some idea of how many men are interested will be distributed. These blanks will be in no way binding...
...last year when the country was in no immediate danger. The Harvard Regiment placed the University in the forefront of the believers in an adequate defense for this country. Now in a time of national peril the numbers of the Harvard Regiment ought to be doubled, and a training unit of two thousand students should once again prove that Harvard recognizes her duty to the country and offers her services to the last man for the protection of the nation. The enrolment in this officers' unit will show that there are no Harvard slackers in 1917 even as there were...
...HAVEN, CONN., FEB. 4, 1917--No definite course of action in regard to military training to meet the war crisis has been determined upon yet. An interview in the Yale News states tomorrow that in case of war the recently established officers' training unit will probably be given intensive training until men are fitted for positions...