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C. \n\n\n\nA REPRINT OF THE ^ A ^. \n\nREPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON \nMILITARY SCIENCE AND TACTICS \n\nOF THE \n\nBOARD OF OVERSEERS \n\n\n\nV \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<fr \n\n\n\n\nREPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON MILITARY \nSCIENCE AND TACTICS \n\nTo THE Board of Overseers of Harvard College : \xe2\x80\x94 \n\nThe Committee on Military Science and Tactics has assmned \nthat it is within the scope of its authority to visit and to report \nupon not only the courses on Mihtary Science and Tactics and the \nmiUtary establishment conducted by Harvard University, but also \nthe Naval course given by the University, the two Government \nschools conducted by the Navy in the buildings of the University, \nand the other War activities of the University. The Committee \nhas held several meetings with the Professor of Military Science \nand Tactics, with the Instructors in the Naval course, and with the \nCommanders of the Cadet School of the First Naval District and \nof the United States Naval Radio School, respectively, and it has \nvisited and inspected all of these several schools and organizations \n" in order to receive suggestions, inquire into defects and needs, \nhear complaints, and give encouragement and counsel," in accord- \nance with the provisions of Section 29 of the Rules and By-Laws of \nthe Board of Overseers. On November 26, 1917, with the Board, \nthe Committee reviewed the Reserve Officers\' Training Corps and \nthe three Naval organizations on Soldiers Field. It has also con- \nsidered the other War activities of the University. \n\nThis report is intended to record and to inform the Board of \nOverseers of perhaps the more obvious services rendered and being \nrendered by the University as its contribution toward the winning \nof the great War, and to bring to the attention of the Board certain \nrecommendations and suggestions which the Committee deems \nfruitful; it does not and cannot attempt to record the countless \ndaily War services and sacrifices of the University as an institution \nand of its officers, faculty, students and graduates as individuals. \n\nFor many of the statistics contained in this report, the Com- \nmittee stands indebted to the Annual Report of the President of \nthe University and the report of the special committee of the Board \non Military Affairs. \n\nThis report will, therefore, cover : \xe2\x80\x94 \nI. Army or Mihtary Instruction, \n11. Naval Instruction, \n\nIII. Other War Activities, and \n\nIV. Reconmiendations submitted by the Committee. \n\n\n\nI. Military Instruction \n\n(A) History of the Harvard R. 0. T. C. \n\nOn January 10, 1916, a regiment was formed at Harvard under \nthe command of Captain Constant Cordier, U.S.A., who was then \non recruiting duty in Boston and who volunteered his services and \nwas appointed Commandant and Instructor by the President of \nthe University. Several Army non-commissioned officers were \nalso later detailed as Assistant Instructors. This regiment was \nHarvard\'s first contribution in a strictly military way toward pre- \nparedness for War. The United States Government furnished the \nrifles, bayonets and belts for the regiment, but nothing more in the \nway of equipment, and the regiment had in a strict sense no \nGovernmental connection. The total enrolment in this regiment \namounted to about 1,000, and the regiment reached a high state of \nefficiency. \n\nOn June 3, 1916, an Act was passed by Congress authorizing the \nestabHshment in educational institutions of units of the Reserve \nOfficers\' Training Corps, having a prescribed course of four years, \nwith a fixed weekly number of hours of instruction, and under an \nofiicer of the Army, active or retired, detailed as Professor of MiU- \ntary Science and Tactics; and the President was authorized to \nappoint in the Officers\' Reserve Corps any graduate of such train- \ning corps who had completed the prescribed training. \n\nPursuant to the provisions of this Act and of General Order No. \n49 issued by the War Department, Harvard University estabhshed \na Reserve Officers\' Training Corps for the academic year 1916-17 \nunder the command of Captain Cordier, who was appointed Pro- \nfessor of Military Science, and a course of instruction and of drill \nwas laid out to meet the requirements of the War Department. \nLater, the War Department detailed for this work two additional \nofficers. Captain William S. Bowen and Captain James A. Shannon, \nand six non-commissioned officers. \n\nOn February 3, 1917, the very day upon which the German \nAmbassador was given his passports. President Lowell, with \nadmirable foresight, wrote to the French Ambassador to the \nUnited States asking him whether it would be possible to carry out \na plan approved by General Wood, General Scott and Captain \nCordier, to obtain some French officers to assist in the instruction \nof the Corps. On the advice of the Ambassador, the French \nGovernment detailed six officers, chosen from among the best men \n\n\n\nin the service, for this duty, and these officers arrived in April, \nshortly after the United States had entered the great War. The \nChief of the French Mission was Commandant (now Lieutenant \nColonel) Paul Azan, and the others were Commandant Jean de \nReviers de Mauny, Capitaines Adolphe Dupont and Marcel de \nJarny, and lieutenants Andre Morize and Jean Giraudoux. These \nwere the first French officers to come to this country to give mih- \ntary instruction, and their coming was an event of the greatest \nsignificance, not only to the University, but to the country at \nlarge. All of these officers had been, since early in the War, in the \nactive service of France, and were especially selected for their \nability to teach. For their expert knowledge of the most modern \narts of War, for their enthusiasm, loyalty, intelligence and affec- \ntionate devotion, Harvard University and the American people \nwill always owe a debt of gratitude \xe2\x80\x94 to the officers themselves \nand to the Nation which so generously loaned them to us. \n\nSoon after this Country entered the War, on April 6, 1917, the \nUniversity went on a War footing. Of the members of the \nR. 0. T. C, 284 were admitted to the first officers\' training camps \nestablished by the Government in May at Pittsburgh and else- \nwhere, while many others joined the Naval Reserve, the Aviation \nand Signal Corps, and other branches of the Army and Navy. The \nremainder of the Harvard R. 0. T. C. finished their strictly aca- \ndemic work and concentrated upon their military training, to \nwhich they devoted all of their time. This intensive work lasted \nfrom May 8, 1917, to August 15, 1917. \n\nTo the R. 0. T. C. were admitted not only students in the Uni- \nversity, but also graduates of this University and of other univer- \nsities, and others approved by the mihtary commanders. The \nnumber of names on the roster from February to August was 1885, \nof which 1139 were those of Harvard students, 309 of Harvard \ngraduates, 290 of men from other colleges, and 147 of men with no \ncollege affiliations. A particularly gratifying increase in the \nnumber came when some 100 members of the Yale R. O. T. C. late \nin June took their places as part of the Harvard Corps. After \nCommencement, the Freshman Halls were used as barracks, and \nthe training included a three weeks\' encampment at Barre, Mass. \nThis training was conducted by the members of the French Mission \nand by Captains Cordier, Bowen and Shannon, and also for a \nshort time by Captain Winfield S. Overton. To these intelHgent \nand efficient officers of the Army the University also owes a debt \nof real gratitude. \n\n\n\nAfter the completion of the training, 296 members of the Corps, \nbeing almost all of the men of the required age, were admitted to \nthe second series of Government training camps; while 7 members, \ntoo young to go to the training camps, at the invitation of General \nLeonard Wood gave instruction to Army officers at Camp Funston, \nKansas, on the methods of trench warfare learned from the French \nMission. \n\nIt had been hoped that the Government would commission \ngraduates of the R. 0. T. C. without the requirement of attend- \nance at further Government training camps. None of these men \nhad been able to comply with the requirements of the Act of Con- \ngress and the orders of the War Department in respect to the \nnumber of years of work; but they had done a great deal more \nwork and devoted more hours to it than were ever contemplated by \nthe Act, and the training which they had received was found by \nexperience to be fully equal to that given at the regular Officers\' \nTraining Camps, and in the knowledge of modern warfare, learned \nfrom the French Mission, probably far superior. However, for \nreasons which the War Department has considered for the good of \nthe service, the Government has not seen fit to change the require- \nments in this respect, and, unless the Act is amended, it will still \nbe necessary for members of college R. O. T. Cs., who have not \nbeen able to complete the full four years\' course, to attend Govern- \nment camps before they can obtain commissions in the Army. \n\nThe instruction given by the French Mission had been so success- \nful and had become so well known that, after the close of the first \nseries of Government camps, 550 newly commissioned Reserve \nOfficers, holding ranks from Lieutenant to Major, were detailed by \nthe Government to receive additional instruction in modern war- \nfare from the French Mission at Harvard and the officers detailed \nby our Government. These men were quartered in the Freshman \nHalls and became known as the \'\'Iron Battalion" out of compH- \nment to Colonel Azan whose division in France had borne that \nname. It is interesting to note that many French officers have \nnow been brought to this country for the instruction of the Ameri- \ncan Army, but of these the Harvard Mission will always stand as \nthe pioneers. \n\nBefore the opening of the academic year in September, 1917, the \nofficers detailed by our Government had been withdrawn and most \nof the French officers had left the University for broader fields of \nusefulness to the Nation. The University was, however, so fortu- \n\n\n\nnate as to retain the services of Lieutenant Morize, and to have \nColonel Azan, who had been appointed to command the French \nofficers giving instruction in the training camps in the northern \npart of the United States, stationed most of his time near enough \nto Cambridge to supervise the work of the R. O. T. C. At the \nbeginning of the year, also, the Government detailed Major \nWilHam F. Flynn, U.S.A., retired, in charge of the Harvard \nR. O. T. C, and he was appointed by the University Professor of \nMiHtary Science and Tactics, and has served as such throughout \nthe year with marked loyalty and fidelity. \n\n(B) Courses of Instruction, 1917-18 \n\nThe University has offered this year two courses in Mihtary \nScience and Tactics, covering both theoretical instruction and \ndrill: \xe2\x80\x94 \n\nNo. 1. \xe2\x80\x94 An elementary half -course running throughout the \nyear; and \n\nNo. 2. \xe2\x80\x94 An advanced full course continuing throughout the \nyear. \n\nThe elementary course was open to physically fit Freshmen and \nother members of the University, and the advanced course was \nopen to and could be counted for a degree by all who had completed \nMihtary Science and Tactics 1, as given by Harvard last year, or \nwho had had equivalent training elsewhere. \n\nThe University has also offered three new courses for the second \nhalf-year, \xe2\x80\x94 a course on Engineering at the Wentworth Institute \nof Boston; a course on Company Administration; and a course on \nAdvanced Topography. \n\nIt is in many respects unfortunate that these courses will not \nlead to commissions without further training at Government \ncamps, especially since young officers of the quality and training \npossessed by members of the R. 0. T. C. at Harvard and other \ncolleges will be needed throughout this War in greater and greater \nnumbers and with the least possible delay. It is also felt that it \nwould greatly stimulate mihtary instruction in colleges if officers \nof the United States Reserve could be appointed to assist the \nregular or retired officers appointed by the Government, or to act \nas instructors in such institutions as have been unable to obtain \nregular or retired officers. Many of these reserve officers, fresh \nfrom training camps, would be of the greatest possible assistance \n\n\n\nin instruction in modern warfare. The Act of Congress might well \nbe amended in these respects. \n\n(C) Drill, 1917-18 \n\nDuring the present academic year, the Harvard R. O. T. C. has \ncontinued its drill as well as its theoretical instruction. A regiment \nof 12 companies was reorganized. \n\nThe members of Military Science 1 have drill two hours a week; \nthe members of MiUtary Science 2 drill with the members of the \nelementary course, and in addition have had special drill by them- \nselves of two hours each week. The total enrolment in the \nR. 0. T. C. of this year was 1193, of whom 991 took the course in \nfull and 202 drilled with the regiment but did not take the full \ncourse. These were distributed as follows: \n\n1921 428 \n\n1920 247 \n\n1919 188 \n\n1918 , 123 \n\nUnclassified 45 \n\nSpecial 2 \n\nCollege total 1,033 \n\nGraduate School 47 \n\nSchool of Business Administration 12 \n\nLaw School 52 \n\nDivinity School 3 \n\nDental School 28 \n\nArchitecture 9 \n\nOutside graduates 9 \n\nTotal 1,193 \n\nEarly in January, 1918, 51 men of the Corps went to the third \nOfficers\' Training Camp at Camp Upton, N. Y., and these were \npractically all of the members of the Corps of the requisite military \nage. It is interesting to note that the Dean of the College has \nreported that on January 18th there were left in MiUtary Science \nand Tactics 2, 32 Seniors, of whom 17 were too young to be nomi- \nnated for the training camp, 5 were physically disqualified for \nCamp Upton, and 3 are preparing to enter some other form of \nNational service, while 2 others complete the requirement for their \ndegrees at the mid-year and will leave college then. \n\nThere has been considerable difficulty in obtaining adequate \ndrill during the winter time. After conferring with Major Flynn \n\n\n\nin November, the Committee endeavored to cooperate with him \nin obtaining the Commonwealth Armory in Boston as a drill hall, \nbut after one week\'s trial the attempt to drill in that armory was \nabandoned largely because of the matter of expense. Since then, \ndrill has been conducted by companies in the baseball cage and in \nthe Cambridge Municipal Drill Hall, but these have proved entirely \ninadequate, and some provision should certainly be made for \nproper drill facihties for the R. 0. T. C. during the winter months \nfor future years if not for this winter. \n\nII. Naval Instruction \n\nThere are three distinct Naval Schools now in existence under \nthe general auspices of the University: \xe2\x80\x94 \n\nA. The Naval course given by the University for members of \nthe Naval Reserve; \n\nB. The Government School for Ensigns known as The Cadet \nSchool, First Naval District; and \n\nC. The United States Naval Radio School. \n\n(A) The University\'s Naval Course \n\nFor the academic year 1917-18, the University has arranged a \nrequired programme of four courses for men in the Naval Reserve \non leave of absence at the University, to occupy their full time and \nto prepare them for the Ensign\'s examination. These courses are \nconducted at the Astronomical Laboratory on Jarvis Street. They \ninclude : \n\nCourse 1. Mathematics. \xe2\x80\x94 A full course covering Plane Trigo- \nnometry, Sohd Geometry, Spherical Trigonometry, and \nAnal5rtic Geometry of two and three dimensions. \nCourse 2. Navigation and Nautical Astronomy. \xe2\x80\x94 A full course \ncovering the Theory and Use of Nautical Instruments, Pilot- \ning, Dead Reckoning, Saihngs, Nautical Astronomy, Theory \nand Practice in the use of the Sextant in the determination of \nthe position of a ship at sea, and the Sumner Method and the \nMethod of St. Hilaire. \nCourse 3a. A half course on Marine Meteorology. \nCourse 35. A half course on Naval Principles and Practice. \nCourse 4. A full course on Seamanship, Ordnance and Gunnery, \nwith Drill. . \n\n\n\nThese courses have been conducted by Professors of the Univer- \nsity and also by Lieutenant Edward Forbes Greene, U.S.N. , retired, \nwho was appointed by the Government for this work. Lieutenant \nGreene had also conducted practical drills for the members of these \ncourses as part of the Course on Ordnance. The sudden death of \nLieutenant Greene on December 18, 1917, was a real loss to Naval \ninstruction at Harvard. His earnestness, keenness, energy and \nknowledge of the intricate and difficult subjects which must be \nunderstood by a Naval Officer rendered his aid invaluable. Since \nhis death, Ensign WilUam Lambert Barnard, N.N.V., Harvard \n1899, an instructor in the Government School for Ensigns, was \nappointed temporarily to take Lieutenant Greene\'s place and to \nconduct the mid-year examinations. Lieutenant Commander \nJoseph C. Nowell, U.S.N.N.V., has recently been appointed in \ncharge of this course. \n\nIt is hoped that the Government will recognize the efficiency of \nthe Naval courses being given by the University and if possible so \narrange it that those who complete them satisfactorily will, on \npassing the Government examination, be commissioned as Ensigns \nwithout further study. No definite arrangement, however, has as \nyet been made in this respect. \n\n(B) The Government\'s Cadet School \n\nThe Government has established at Harvard a Cadet School for \nthe First Naval District. It is under the charge of Captain James \nP. Parker, N.N.V., a graduate of Harvard College of the Class of \n1896. The purpose of the School is to prepare for commissions as \nEnsigns those members of the Naval Reserve Force, Coast Guard, \nor National Naval Volunteers, who have the necessary basis of \neducation and are deemed to possess the requisite personal quaU- \nfications. The course is a four months\' course. The first class of \nthis School was held at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology \nfrom June until October, and the second class, the first one at \nHarvard, commenced in October and ended in February. The \nthird class commenced on February 18, 1918. It is expected that \nthere will be successive four months\' courses conducted at Harvard \nthroughout the War. \n\nThe candidates for this School are carefully selected by a Board \nat the Navy Yard in Boston, due consideration being given to \nprofessional knowledge, practical experience, general education, \nofficer-hke quahties, subordination and initiative. There are 150 \n\n\n\ncadets in this School. The course of instruction at the School is \nalmost identical with the course given to the Reserve Officers at \nAnnapolis, with the exception of the course in Ordnance, which is \nhandicapped by lack of equipment. \n\nFor the use of the School, the University turned over the follow- \ning buildings and facilities : \n\nHolyoke House as a dormitory; part of \n\nDane Hall as an office; \n\nHarvard 1 as a lecture room; and the \n\nDining Room in Standish Hall as a Mess Hall. \n\nThe dormitory and office have been furnished at the expense of the \nGovernment, which pays to the University the sum of $1.25 a day \nfor the board and lodging of each member of the School. \n\n(C) United States Naval Radio School \n\nIn May, 1917, the Government, through Captain William R. \nRush, Commandant of the Charlestown Navy Yard, organized in \nthe University buildings at Cambridge a school for instruction in \nradio work in order to supply not only the Navy, but also the \nMerchant Marine, with radio operators. At the present time, \nabout nine out of every ten radio operators appointed by the \nGovernment are being trained at this School. The School on \nJanuary 1st had a total personnel of 3296, of whom about 3,000 \nwere under instruction. By contract with the Government, the \nUniversity is paid $1.25 per day for each member of the School. \nThe University has assigned to the use of the School for class-rooms \nabout four-fifths of Pierce Hall, and practically the whole of Austin \nHall; Memorial Hall has been given over to the members of the \nSchool as a Mess Hall; sleeping quarters are provided in Perkins \nHall, Walter Hastings Hall and the Eemenway Gjmmasium. The \nUniversity has also assigned as a Sick Bay the little building for- \nmerly used as a Contagious Hospital, near Pierce Hall; and for \nrecreation, the University has turned over to the School the \nDivinity Library. In addition, the Government has hired Craigie \nHall and Winthrop Hall and is negotiating for Russell Hall and \nthe land and buildings of the Palfrey Estate. A hut of the \nY. M. C. A. has been erected on Holmes Field. \n\nTo have a Government school of 3,000 men in Harvard in addi- \ntion to its own depleted numbers, is certainly an achievement for \nwhich the Universiljy may well feel considerable satisfaction. \n\n\n\nThe Radio School is in command of Lieutenant Commander \nNathaniel F. Ayer, U.S.N. R.F., a graduate of Harvard College in \nthe Class of 1900. The course of instruction is seventeen weeks in \nlength. A new course is started every Monday morning, and \napproximately 150 men are graduated on each Saturday morning. \n\nThe Committee has inspected several of the buildings used by \nthe School, and particularly Pierce Hall. It is felt that the extra- \nordinary growth of the School makes necessary the use of the entire \nbuilding of Pierce Hall and that the few members of the University \nwho are still using the Hall should be accommodated elsewhere. \n\nIII. Other War Activities \n\nThe other War activities conducted by the University have been \nmanifold in number and of widely different types. The range of \nthese activities is indicated by a recital of the following. \n\nAt the request of the Council of National Defence, the Graduate \nSchool of Business Administration established two courses of \nspecial training for those intending to enter the Quartermaster or \nOrdnance Corps; one course on Military Stores-keeping, and the \nother on Cost Inspection for War Contracts. In addition, a course \non Supply, for prospective officers of the line, was offered to mem- \nbers of the Harvard R. 0. T. C. In these three courses were \nenrolled 145 men. \n\nThe Medical School has given, at the request of the Surgeon \nGeneral, courses in medicine for the Army and Navy and a course \nin orthopedic surgery for selected members of the Medical Corps. \nThe medical personnel of four base hospital units has been com- \nposed almost wholly of members of the teaching force of the \nHarvard Medical School, or of its graduates; including the Har- \nvard Surgical Unit, which occupies Base Hospital 22 with the \nBritish Expeditionary Force in France under the command of Dr. \nHugh Cabot, \'94, M. \'98; the unit of the Medical School formed \nin connection with the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital under the \nlead of Dr. Harvey Gushing, M. \'95; and the units of the Massa- \nchusetts General Hospital and of the Boston City Hospital. \n\nUpon the request of the Government, the cHnic of the Harvard \nDental School with its 125 chairs has been utilized to give dental \ntreatment to drafted men, and the Dental School also maintains \ntwo chairs at the Radio School and one at the Commonwealth Pier \nfor members of the Naval Reserve. \n\n\n\nUnder the auspices of the Summer School, a number of courses \nwere given on subjects relating to the War; the Bussey Institution \nis the headquarters of the Botanical Raw Products Committee \norganized under the Council for National Defence; and the Psy- \nchological Laboratory has been engaged in devising and standardiz- \ning tests for the selection of aviation volunteers. \n\nAt the request of the authorities of the Charlestown Navy Yard, \nmembers of the Department of German acted as translators of \nrecords and inscriptions on German steamers seized by the Gov- \nernment; while members of the French Department, at the request \nof the War Department, spent the summer months at West Point \nhelping the cadets become proficient in French conversation. \n\nThe American University Union, in Paris, has been estabhshed \nby the leading American colleges and technical schools to meet the \nneeds of American college men and their friends in Europe. For \nthe convenience of Harvard men, a Bureau has been established in \nthis Union as the center for all information relating to Harvard \nmen abroad. A most valuable War service is being rendered by \nthe Union and by this Bureau. \n\nThe records of Harvard men in War service are being kept sys- \ntematically and efficiently by the Harvard War Records Committee \nin the Harvard Union, under the direction of Frederick S. Mead, \n\'87. On October 11, 1917, the Harvard Alumni Bulletin compiled \nthe fist of those in War Service as follows : \n\nUnited States Army 1,997 \n\nUnited States Navy 713 \n\nForeign Armies 122 \n\nMedical and Surgical Service 591 \n\nHarvard R. O. T. C. and other military bodies 917 \n\nAmbulance Service 420 \n\nRed Cross and other relief work 229 \n\nNational, State, and other committee work 498 \n\nMiscellaneous 125 \n\nTotal 5,612 \n\nThe number is now, of course, much larger. \' \n\nIt may also not be out of place to report that on January 1, 1918, \nthe Harvard Club of New York City, out of a total membership of \n4,919, old and young, resident and non-resident, had records of 870 \nmembers in the American, Belgian, British and French Armies \nand in the American Navy, as well as 44 members engaged in Field \nService of the Red^jCross in Europe and of the Y. M. C. A., about \n\n\n\none out of every five members, therefore, being in active service, \nwhile many hundreds more were helping and serving in other ways. \n\nThe drain upon the members of the University has of course \nbeen great, as is shown by the President\'s report, the loss in stu- \ndents this year being about 2,000 from the numbers of last year, \nwith a considerable loss in the teaching force. \n\nThus, in countless ways have the University and its sons given \nto the service of the Nation. \n\nIV. Recommendations \n\nSo long as this World War shall continue, and until a satisfactory \npeace is achieved, the main object of the University must be to \nrender every assistance possible to the Government in the prosecu- \ntion of the War, consistent with maintaining its functions as a \nUniversity and preserving its usefulness for the period of recon- \nstruction after the War and the future. The services already \nrendered by the University and its sons have been in all respects \ncommendable. Under the leadership of President Lowell, the \nUniversity has already offered to the Government every faciHty \nand has rendered services of which we may all feel proud. That \nthe usefulness of the University in the future will be even greater \nthan it has been in the past, seems clear. New calls will come from \ntime to time and new opportunities be open. That these will be \nmet in the spirit of the highest and broadest disinterested patriot- \nism is assured, and the working out of the future service of the \nUniversity may safely be left in the hands of President Lowell and \nthose cooperating with him. This Committee commends most \nheartily the accompHshments of the past and urges a continuance \nand development of the service of the University to the Nation as \nthe War progresses. \n\nWith respect to specific recommendations, your Committee \nmakes the following suggestions : \n\n1. That the efforts of the President of the University to secure an \namendment of the National Defence Act of June 3, 1916, should, \nwhen the time seems ripe, be renewed, in behalf not only of Harvard, \nbut also of all other colleges giving adequate military training, in the \nfollowing particulars : \n\n(a) In order to permit of the assignment of reserve and other avail- \nable officers to instruction in the colleges. Section 45 of the Act \nshould be amended by inserting at the end of the first sentence \nthe words " provided that during the existing emergency, \nreserve and other officers, as well as regular ofl&cers, may be \nassigned to this duty irrespective of their periods of service "; \n\n\n\n(6) In order to provide for the commissioning in the United States \nReserve of graduates of Reserve Officers\' Training Corps at \ncolleges without the necessity of repeating much of their work \nat Officers\' Training Camps, Sections 49 and 50 of the Act should \nbe amended to provide that during the existing emergency the \namount of training to qualify students for commissions in the \nArmy shall be reckoned in hours, and that eligibility for com- \nmissions shall depend on the satisfactory completion of the \nhours of training required without regard to the number of \nyears in which it is done. \n\n2. In order that the training of the Harvard R. 0. T. C. may be brought \nto a higher perfection, a Drill Hall should be provided for the winter \ntraining. \n\n3. Throughout the War, Harvard should continue summer camps for \nintensive training, open not only to Harvard men but as broadly as \npossible to all men properly qualified, particularly those too young \nto attend the Government camps. \n\n4. The Navy Department should be asked to commission as Ensigns, \nwithout the requirement of attendance at any further Government \nSchool, graduates of the Harvard Naval course, and of similar courses \nat other colleges, on their passing the examinations prescribed by \nthe Government. \n\n5. The Committee feels that the suggestion of Captain James P. \nParker of the Cadet School should be brought to the attention of \nthe Government, to the effect that the several similar schools on the \nAtlantic Seaboard might well be consolidated into one school held at \nHarvard, thereby promoting efficiency and saving expense. \n\n6. The extraordinary growth of the Radio School requires that all of \nthe available facilities needed by it be generously placed at its dis- \nposal, and your Committee feels that the Professors and other mem- \nbers of the University now using parts of Pierce Hall should be \naccommodated elsewhere, in order that the whole of that Hall may \nbe not only used for the Radio School, but also under its sole com- \nmand. \n\nRespectfully submitted, \n\nLANGDON P. MARVIN, Chairman, \nLEONARD WOOD, \nFRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, \nARTHUR WOODS, \nELIOT WADSWORTH, \nSAMUEL D. PARKER, \nGEORGE BATY BLAKE, \nAMOS TUCK FRENCH, \nGEORGE C. SHATTUCK, \nALEXANDER WHITESIDE, \nCommittee on Military Science and Tactics. \nFebruary 25, 1918. \n\n\n\nLIBRftRY OF CONGRESS \n\nMm \n\n020 914 369 \n\n\n\n\' \'^\xe2\x96\xa0^^ \n\n6H ^^ \n\n\n\nFi \n\n\n\nLIBRARY OF CONGRESS ^ \n\nilliiililillllllillllilliii* \n\n020 914 369 \n\n\n\nHoUinger Corp. \npH 8.5 \n\n\n\n'