Communication

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To the Editors of the CRIMSON:

I have read with interest and sympathy your two editorials of May 1. But at the same time it must be remembered that one defect of the many virtues of democratic government is a lack of co-ordination which diminishes efficiency, retards and confuses action, and calls, at the beginning, at least, of any crisis, for the aid of private and voluntary association and effort.

It is upon the necessity of this private and voluntary co-operation among Harvard men that we should now insist. It is useless to regret that the Government has not done better by us. It is rather now for us to show that we are resolved to utilize to the utmost the many advantages with which we are still left. The Government has not been ungenerous. In a time of scarcity it has left us our officers and held out the hope of equipment. And the University and the alumni have been very generous in encouragement and aid of every sort. They are determined that so far as in them lies, this camp here shall be in every respect as efficient and valuable and successful as the camps regularly organized by the Government.

But for this determination to be fulfilled and this generosity to be repaid an equal determination and an equal willingness to give--of their time and work and intelligence--must come from the undergraduates and from other members of the Harvard Regiment. It is this for which I appeal. Enrolment must be speedy and complete. Every man must do his bit and his best to keep the Regi- ment "in the pink of condition" and at the height of efficiency. Let us show the country, each one, of us by his own individual effort, that we mean to put this thing through. Let us show the Government that we can equal, if not beat, them at their own game. Let us show the alumni and the University that we appreciate what they have done for us. And finally, let us show our French instructors, and through them the splendid and generous nation which, in the hour of her own need, has spared them to us, that we are not ungrateful and not unworthy.  B. A. G. FULLER '00