IMMEDIATE INTENSIVE TRAINING

The call for five hundred thousand volunteers will go out in the next few days. The Harvard men in the R. O. T. C. will be the future officers of this new army. For the last month these men have given the required time to the prescribed training, but now the decision has finally been made that we have been waiting for. The result must be an immediate increase in the hours of training. Every man wants to be an officer as soon as possible, as every officer will be needed. The quickest progress can only be made by these future officers when their entire attention can be concentrated on military work. Scholastic, social, and all other interests must be discarded and the Harvard men in the R. O. T. C. must be allowed to give their unhampered efforts to the serious work at hand.

It is clearly evident that the College authorities cannot make the many arrangements with the War Department in a day or a week, but we strongly urge that they do all in their power to obtain the immediate establishment of a training camp at the University. If the War Department fails at first to see the advisability of forming a school here, the greatest pressure ought to be used to convince it that most efficient results can be obtained with the training school established on the spot. Until this is brought about we can only wait and bend every personal effort towards making ourselves well-trained officers.