Word: war
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...War Department would do well to give favorable consideration to the suggestion of the Harvard CRIMSON that an all-college-officers' training camp be established this summer. The idea clearly contains merit. Hundreds of college men, now below the draft age, would welcome the opportunity to devote the long vacation to intensive preparation for military service of a kind still greatly needed. To students in those institutions which now have no R. O. T. C. the plan would be particularly attractive, because it would enable them to get a training which conditions at their own colleges force them to forego...
...just as urgently needed. Let the colleges devoted to these varying interests poor their resources. Let the infantry of Harvard, the artillery of Yale and the engineering of Technology join forces in another great effort to meet the di- verse needs of a country at last seriously at war...
...plan will depend for its success upon something more than the mere approval of the War Department. To be of the fullest value it must also have Governmental recognition. The argument so often presented in the case of individual college camps that the Federal authorities cannot distinguish between institutions will no longer obtain. Here will be an all-college Plattsburg to all intents and purposes identical with the training camps which the Federal authorities themselves created. If may be too much to expect that the college students attending will be granted commissions on a satisfactory completion of the course...
...service other than military. The answer to this theorem is a perfectly logical one; it is impossible to distinguish between patriots and slackers. No undergraduate or graduate wants to see the University represented by any man who is not doing his utmost toward his future usefulness in the war...
Professor W. C. Sabine, A.M. '88, will deliver the ninth of the series of University war lectures in the New Lecture Hall tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock on "Aviation and the War." These lectures are given for the purpose of better acquainting members of the University with conditions and customs in the warring countries. They are not open to the public...