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Following up his recent talk before an assembly of University athletes in the Stadium on Thursday, April 24, Colonel Blanton Winship, officer in charge of the C. M.T. C. affairs, has written a letter to the CRIMSON in order to further the plan of getting a large representation from Harvard. Colonel Winship told a reporter at the Army Base in Boston that an unfortunate idea had grown among college men all over the country that the training camps catered more to young boys than to them. This as he explains in the letter, is an absolute misconception...
...reaction to the recent storm of pacifism which has smitten the University was the large gathering which heard Colonel Winship yesterday in the Stadium. To his statement that if the nation is to be prepared, college men must, participate in the preparations, no exception can be taken, although one may be inclined to believe that the example of Harvard in this respect might not be the stimulating influence he anticipates. But it is necessary to regard the summer training from a patriotic point of view, rather than from the standpoint of personal benefit, if one is to wax enthusiastic...
...make the Harvard enrollment as great as possible," said R. T. Fisher '12, head coach of the University football team introducing Colonel Planton Winship, Officer in Charge of C. M. T. C. affairs, at the Stadium yesterday afternoon. "I heartily endorse the project of summer military training...
Over 250 athletes were assembled inside the Stadium. Football, crew, baseball, track lacrosse, soccer, and tennis stopped at 4.15 o'clock to enable all to attend. "If the nation does not train young college men, it will be left with no adequate defense", said Colonel Winship. "Congress has so cut down on the reserve corps that we absolutely must get support for our project. What I want to see a large group from Harvard at Camp Devens next summer, for once Harvard takes the lead in this movement other colleges will follow." Time C. M. T. C. hopes to enlist...
...Colonel Winship has a brilliant war record, going to France shortly after the declaration of war, serving on General Pershing's Staff, and subsequently commanding two different regiments in major engagements. He was wounded in action, and decorated with the D. S. C. for gallantry. He has also been awarded the D. S. M. for exceptional meritorious and conspicuous service during the World War. Assigned to duty as a member of the Reparations Commission after the war, he returned to the United States last December after seven years abroad and given the important assignment which he now holds...