Fifty Percent of S. A. T. C. College Men.

To the Editors of the CRIMSON:

In your editorial of April 10th, you attempt to excuse the inefficiency of the S. A. T. C. by writing that "few men were of college calibre." You go on to suggest that the S. A. T. C. was not a failure per se, but because of the men who composed it! To quote from the editorial, "Its rolls were not filled with the names of regular undergraduates--but with the names of younger men who seized the opportunity to enter college without examinations at the expense of the government, and of a few older men evading duty."

Fully fifty percent of the men in the S. A. T. C. were college men. We have yet to meet a member of any Harvard S. A. T. C. company who would say that college men were in the minority in his company. Regarding older men evading active duty, it might be stated that there were a certain number of limited service--Group C--men enrolled in this organization because they were not eligible for any other branch of service. Among this number were several members of former Harvard athletic teams -- presumably men of college calibre.

Of Dean Goodnight's opinions concerning military training, we are not familiar. But if all the military, naval, and even aerial programs mentioned in the "CRIMSON" are adopted at Harvard, even the most same and conservative person might say with Dean Goodnight, "University and military training are not compatible." M. J. DONNER '21.