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 REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON 
 MILITARY SCIENCE AND TACTICS 
 
 OF THE 
 
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REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON MILITARY 
 SCIENCE AND TACTICS 
 
 To THE Board of Overseers of Harvard College : — 
 
 The Committee on Military Science and Tactics has assmned 
 that it is within the scope of its authority to visit and to report 
 upon not only the courses on Mihtary Science and Tactics and the 
 miUtary establishment conducted by Harvard University, but also 
 the Naval course given by the University, the two Government 
 schools conducted by the Navy in the buildings of the University, 
 and the other War activities of the University. The Committee 
 has held several meetings with the Professor of Military Science 
 and Tactics, with the Instructors in the Naval course, and with the 
 Commanders of the Cadet School of the First Naval District and 
 of the United States Naval Radio School, respectively, and it has 
 visited and inspected all of these several schools and organizations 
 " in order to receive suggestions, inquire into defects and needs, 
 hear complaints, and give encouragement and counsel," in accord- 
 ance with the provisions of Section 29 of the Rules and By-Laws of 
 the Board of Overseers. On November 26, 1917, with the Board, 
 the Committee reviewed the Reserve Officers' Training Corps and 
 the three Naval organizations on Soldiers Field. It has also con- 
 sidered the other War activities of the University. 
 
 This report is intended to record and to inform the Board of 
 Overseers of perhaps the more obvious services rendered and being 
 rendered by the University as its contribution toward the winning 
 of the great War, and to bring to the attention of the Board certain 
 recommendations and suggestions which the Committee deems 
 fruitful; it does not and cannot attempt to record the countless 
 daily War services and sacrifices of the University as an institution 
 and of its officers, faculty, students and graduates as individuals. 
 
 For many of the statistics contained in this report, the Com- 
 mittee stands indebted to the Annual Report of the President of 
 the University and the report of the special committee of the Board 
 on Military Affairs. 
 
 This report will, therefore, cover : — 
 I. Army or Mihtary Instruction, 
 11. Naval Instruction, 
 
 III. Other War Activities, and 
 
 IV. Reconmiendations submitted by the Committee. 
 
I. Military Instruction 
 
 (A) History of the Harvard R. 0. T. C. 
 
 On January 10, 1916, a regiment was formed at Harvard under 
 the command of Captain Constant Cordier, U.S.A., who was then 
 on recruiting duty in Boston and who volunteered his services and 
 was appointed Commandant and Instructor by the President of 
 the University. Several Army non-commissioned officers were 
 also later detailed as Assistant Instructors. This regiment was 
 Harvard's first contribution in a strictly military way toward pre- 
 paredness for War. The United States Government furnished the 
 rifles, bayonets and belts for the regiment, but nothing more in the 
 way of equipment, and the regiment had in a strict sense no 
 Governmental connection. The total enrolment in this regiment 
 amounted to about 1,000, and the regiment reached a high state of 
 efficiency. 
 
 On June 3, 1916, an Act was passed by Congress authorizing the 
 estabHshment in educational institutions of units of the Reserve 
 Officers' Training Corps, having a prescribed course of four years, 
 with a fixed weekly number of hours of instruction, and under an 
 ofiicer of the Army, active or retired, detailed as Professor of MiU- 
 tary Science and Tactics; and the President was authorized to 
 appoint in the Officers' Reserve Corps any graduate of such train- 
 ing corps who had completed the prescribed training. 
 
 Pursuant to the provisions of this Act and of General Order No. 
 49 issued by the War Department, Harvard University estabhshed 
 a Reserve Officers' Training Corps for the academic year 1916-17 
 under the command of Captain Cordier, who was appointed Pro- 
 fessor of Military Science, and a course of instruction and of drill 
 was laid out to meet the requirements of the War Department. 
 Later, the War Department detailed for this work two additional 
 officers. Captain William S. Bowen and Captain James A. Shannon, 
 and six non-commissioned officers. 
 
 On February 3, 1917, the very day upon which the German 
 Ambassador was given his passports. President Lowell, with 
 admirable foresight, wrote to the French Ambassador to the 
 United States asking him whether it would be possible to carry out 
 a plan approved by General Wood, General Scott and Captain 
 Cordier, to obtain some French officers to assist in the instruction 
 of the Corps. On the advice of the Ambassador, the French 
 Government detailed six officers, chosen from among the best men 
 
in the service, for this duty, and these officers arrived in April, 
 shortly after the United States had entered the great War. The 
 Chief of the French Mission was Commandant (now Lieutenant 
 Colonel) Paul Azan, and the others were Commandant Jean de 
 Reviers de Mauny, Capitaines Adolphe Dupont and Marcel de 
 Jarny, and lieutenants Andre Morize and Jean Giraudoux. These 
 were the first French officers to come to this country to give mih- 
 tary instruction, and their coming was an event of the greatest 
 significance, not only to the University, but to the country at 
 large. All of these officers had been, since early in the War, in the 
 active service of France, and were especially selected for their 
 ability to teach. For their expert knowledge of the most modern 
 arts of War, for their enthusiasm, loyalty, intelligence and affec- 
 tionate devotion, Harvard University and the American people 
 will always owe a debt of gratitude — to the officers themselves 
 and to the Nation which so generously loaned them to us. 
 
 Soon after this Country entered the War, on April 6, 1917, the 
 University went on a War footing. Of the members of the 
 R. 0. T. C, 284 were admitted to the first officers' training camps 
 established by the Government in May at Pittsburgh and else- 
 where, while many others joined the Naval Reserve, the Aviation 
 and Signal Corps, and other branches of the Army and Navy. The 
 remainder of the Harvard R. 0. T. C. finished their strictly aca- 
 demic work and concentrated upon their military training, to 
 which they devoted all of their time. This intensive work lasted 
 from May 8, 1917, to August 15, 1917. 
 
 To the R. 0. T. C. were admitted not only students in the Uni- 
 versity, but also graduates of this University and of other univer- 
 sities, and others approved by the mihtary commanders. The 
 number of names on the roster from February to August was 1885, 
 of which 1139 were those of Harvard students, 309 of Harvard 
 graduates, 290 of men from other colleges, and 147 of men with no 
 college affiliations. A particularly gratifying increase in the 
 number came when some 100 members of the Yale R. O. T. C. late 
 in June took their places as part of the Harvard Corps. After 
 Commencement, the Freshman Halls were used as barracks, and 
 the training included a three weeks' encampment at Barre, Mass. 
 This training was conducted by the members of the French Mission 
 and by Captains Cordier, Bowen and Shannon, and also for a 
 short time by Captain Winfield S. Overton. To these intelHgent 
 and efficient officers of the Army the University also owes a debt 
 of real gratitude. 
 
After the completion of the training, 296 members of the Corps, 
 being almost all of the men of the required age, were admitted to 
 the second series of Government training camps; while 7 members, 
 too young to go to the training camps, at the invitation of General 
 Leonard Wood gave instruction to Army officers at Camp Funston, 
 Kansas, on the methods of trench warfare learned from the French 
 Mission. 
 
 It had been hoped that the Government would commission 
 graduates of the R. 0. T. C. without the requirement of attend- 
 ance at further Government training camps. None of these men 
 had been able to comply with the requirements of the Act of Con- 
 gress and the orders of the War Department in respect to the 
 number of years of work; but they had done a great deal more 
 work and devoted more hours to it than were ever contemplated by 
 the Act, and the training which they had received was found by 
 experience to be fully equal to that given at the regular Officers' 
 Training Camps, and in the knowledge of modern warfare, learned 
 from the French Mission, probably far superior. However, for 
 reasons which the War Department has considered for the good of 
 the service, the Government has not seen fit to change the require- 
 ments in this respect, and, unless the Act is amended, it will still 
 be necessary for members of college R. O. T. Cs., who have not 
 been able to complete the full four years' course, to attend Govern- 
 ment camps before they can obtain commissions in the Army. 
 
 The instruction given by the French Mission had been so success- 
 ful and had become so well known that, after the close of the first 
 series of Government camps, 550 newly commissioned Reserve 
 Officers, holding ranks from Lieutenant to Major, were detailed by 
 the Government to receive additional instruction in modern war- 
 fare from the French Mission at Harvard and the officers detailed 
 by our Government. These men were quartered in the Freshman 
 Halls and became known as the ''Iron Battalion" out of compH- 
 ment to Colonel Azan whose division in France had borne that 
 name. It is interesting to note that many French officers have 
 now been brought to this country for the instruction of the Ameri- 
 can Army, but of these the Harvard Mission will always stand as 
 the pioneers. 
 
 Before the opening of the academic year in September, 1917, the 
 officers detailed by our Government had been withdrawn and most 
 of the French officers had left the University for broader fields of 
 usefulness to the Nation. The University was, however, so fortu- 
 
nate as to retain the services of Lieutenant Morize, and to have 
 Colonel Azan, who had been appointed to command the French 
 officers giving instruction in the training camps in the northern 
 part of the United States, stationed most of his time near enough 
 to Cambridge to supervise the work of the R. O. T. C. At the 
 beginning of the year, also, the Government detailed Major 
 WilHam F. Flynn, U.S.A., retired, in charge of the Harvard 
 R. O. T. C, and he was appointed by the University Professor of 
 MiHtary Science and Tactics, and has served as such throughout 
 the year with marked loyalty and fidelity. 
 
 (B) Courses of Instruction, 1917-18 
 
 The University has offered this year two courses in Mihtary 
 Science and Tactics, covering both theoretical instruction and 
 drill: — 
 
 No. 1. — An elementary half -course running throughout the 
 year; and 
 
 No. 2. — An advanced full course continuing throughout the 
 year. 
 
 The elementary course was open to physically fit Freshmen and 
 other members of the University, and the advanced course was 
 open to and could be counted for a degree by all who had completed 
 Mihtary Science and Tactics 1, as given by Harvard last year, or 
 who had had equivalent training elsewhere. 
 
 The University has also offered three new courses for the second 
 half-year, — a course on Engineering at the Wentworth Institute 
 of Boston; a course on Company Administration; and a course on 
 Advanced Topography. 
 
 It is in many respects unfortunate that these courses will not 
 lead to commissions without further training at Government 
 camps, especially since young officers of the quality and training 
 possessed by members of the R. 0. T. C. at Harvard and other 
 colleges will be needed throughout this War in greater and greater 
 numbers and with the least possible delay. It is also felt that it 
 would greatly stimulate mihtary instruction in colleges if officers 
 of the United States Reserve could be appointed to assist the 
 regular or retired officers appointed by the Government, or to act 
 as instructors in such institutions as have been unable to obtain 
 regular or retired officers. Many of these reserve officers, fresh 
 from training camps, would be of the greatest possible assistance 
 
in instruction in modern warfare. The Act of Congress might well 
 be amended in these respects. 
 
 (C) Drill, 1917-18 
 
 During the present academic year, the Harvard R. O. T. C. has 
 continued its drill as well as its theoretical instruction. A regiment 
 of 12 companies was reorganized. 
 
 The members of Military Science 1 have drill two hours a week; 
 the members of MiUtary Science 2 drill with the members of the 
 elementary course, and in addition have had special drill by them- 
 selves of two hours each week. The total enrolment in the 
 R. 0. T. C. of this year was 1193, of whom 991 took the course in 
 full and 202 drilled with the regiment but did not take the full 
 course. These were distributed as follows: 
 
 1921 428 
 
 1920 247 
 
 1919 188 
 
 1918 , 123 
 
 Unclassified 45 
 
 Special 2 
 
 College total 1,033 
 
 Graduate School 47 
 
 School of Business Administration 12 
 
 Law School 52 
 
 Divinity School 3 
 
 Dental School 28 
 
 Architecture 9 
 
 Outside graduates 9 
 
 Total 1,193 
 
 Early in January, 1918, 51 men of the Corps went to the third 
 Officers' Training Camp at Camp Upton, N. Y., and these were 
 practically all of the members of the Corps of the requisite military 
 age. It is interesting to note that the Dean of the College has 
 reported that on January 18th there were left in MiUtary Science 
 and Tactics 2, 32 Seniors, of whom 17 were too young to be nomi- 
 nated for the training camp, 5 were physically disqualified for 
 Camp Upton, and 3 are preparing to enter some other form of 
 National service, while 2 others complete the requirement for their 
 degrees at the mid-year and will leave college then. 
 
 There has been considerable difficulty in obtaining adequate 
 drill during the winter time. After conferring with Major Flynn 
 
in November, the Committee endeavored to cooperate with him 
 in obtaining the Commonwealth Armory in Boston as a drill hall, 
 but after one week's trial the attempt to drill in that armory was 
 abandoned largely because of the matter of expense. Since then, 
 drill has been conducted by companies in the baseball cage and in 
 the Cambridge Municipal Drill Hall, but these have proved entirely 
 inadequate, and some provision should certainly be made for 
 proper drill facihties for the R. 0. T. C. during the winter months 
 for future years if not for this winter. 
 
 II. Naval Instruction 
 
 There are three distinct Naval Schools now in existence under 
 the general auspices of the University: — 
 
 A. The Naval course given by the University for members of 
 the Naval Reserve; 
 
 B. The Government School for Ensigns known as The Cadet 
 School, First Naval District; and 
 
 C. The United States Naval Radio School. 
 
 (A) The University's Naval Course 
 
 For the academic year 1917-18, the University has arranged a 
 required programme of four courses for men in the Naval Reserve 
 on leave of absence at the University, to occupy their full time and 
 to prepare them for the Ensign's examination. These courses are 
 conducted at the Astronomical Laboratory on Jarvis Street. They 
 include : 
 
 Course 1. Mathematics. — A full course covering Plane Trigo- 
 nometry, Sohd Geometry, Spherical Trigonometry, and 
 Anal5rtic Geometry of two and three dimensions. 
 Course 2. Navigation and Nautical Astronomy. — A full course 
 covering the Theory and Use of Nautical Instruments, Pilot- 
 ing, Dead Reckoning, Saihngs, Nautical Astronomy, Theory 
 and Practice in the use of the Sextant in the determination of 
 the position of a ship at sea, and the Sumner Method and the 
 Method of St. Hilaire. 
 Course 3a. A half course on Marine Meteorology. 
 Course 35. A half course on Naval Principles and Practice. 
 Course 4. A full course on Seamanship, Ordnance and Gunnery, 
 with Drill. . 
 
These courses have been conducted by Professors of the Univer- 
 sity and also by Lieutenant Edward Forbes Greene, U.S.N. , retired, 
 who was appointed by the Government for this work. Lieutenant 
 Greene had also conducted practical drills for the members of these 
 courses as part of the Course on Ordnance. The sudden death of 
 Lieutenant Greene on December 18, 1917, was a real loss to Naval 
 instruction at Harvard. His earnestness, keenness, energy and 
 knowledge of the intricate and difficult subjects which must be 
 understood by a Naval Officer rendered his aid invaluable. Since 
 his death, Ensign WilUam Lambert Barnard, N.N.V., Harvard 
 1899, an instructor in the Government School for Ensigns, was 
 appointed temporarily to take Lieutenant Greene's place and to 
 conduct the mid-year examinations. Lieutenant Commander 
 Joseph C. Nowell, U.S.N.N.V., has recently been appointed in 
 charge of this course. 
 
 It is hoped that the Government will recognize the efficiency of 
 the Naval courses being given by the University and if possible so 
 arrange it that those who complete them satisfactorily will, on 
 passing the Government examination, be commissioned as Ensigns 
 without further study. No definite arrangement, however, has as 
 yet been made in this respect. 
 
 (B) The Government's Cadet School 
 
 The Government has established at Harvard a Cadet School for 
 the First Naval District. It is under the charge of Captain James 
 P. Parker, N.N.V., a graduate of Harvard College of the Class of 
 1896. The purpose of the School is to prepare for commissions as 
 Ensigns those members of the Naval Reserve Force, Coast Guard, 
 or National Naval Volunteers, who have the necessary basis of 
 education and are deemed to possess the requisite personal quaU- 
 fications. The course is a four months' course. The first class of 
 this School was held at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology 
 from June until October, and the second class, the first one at 
 Harvard, commenced in October and ended in February. The 
 third class commenced on February 18, 1918. It is expected that 
 there will be successive four months' courses conducted at Harvard 
 throughout the War. 
 
 The candidates for this School are carefully selected by a Board 
 at the Navy Yard in Boston, due consideration being given to 
 professional knowledge, practical experience, general education, 
 officer-hke quahties, subordination and initiative. There are 150 
 
cadets in this School. The course of instruction at the School is 
 almost identical with the course given to the Reserve Officers at 
 Annapolis, with the exception of the course in Ordnance, which is 
 handicapped by lack of equipment. 
 
 For the use of the School, the University turned over the follow- 
 ing buildings and facilities : 
 
 Holyoke House as a dormitory; part of 
 
 Dane Hall as an office; 
 
 Harvard 1 as a lecture room; and the 
 
 Dining Room in Standish Hall as a Mess Hall. 
 
 The dormitory and office have been furnished at the expense of the 
 Government, which pays to the University the sum of $1.25 a day 
 for the board and lodging of each member of the School. 
 
 (C) United States Naval Radio School 
 
 In May, 1917, the Government, through Captain William R. 
 Rush, Commandant of the Charlestown Navy Yard, organized in 
 the University buildings at Cambridge a school for instruction in 
 radio work in order to supply not only the Navy, but also the 
 Merchant Marine, with radio operators. At the present time, 
 about nine out of every ten radio operators appointed by the 
 Government are being trained at this School. The School on 
 January 1st had a total personnel of 3296, of whom about 3,000 
 were under instruction. By contract with the Government, the 
 University is paid $1.25 per day for each member of the School. 
 The University has assigned to the use of the School for class-rooms 
 about four-fifths of Pierce Hall, and practically the whole of Austin 
 Hall; Memorial Hall has been given over to the members of the 
 School as a Mess Hall; sleeping quarters are provided in Perkins 
 Hall, Walter Hastings Hall and the Eemenway Gjmmasium. The 
 University has also assigned as a Sick Bay the little building for- 
 merly used as a Contagious Hospital, near Pierce Hall; and for 
 recreation, the University has turned over to the School the 
 Divinity Library. In addition, the Government has hired Craigie 
 Hall and Winthrop Hall and is negotiating for Russell Hall and 
 the land and buildings of the Palfrey Estate. A hut of the 
 Y. M. C. A. has been erected on Holmes Field. 
 
 To have a Government school of 3,000 men in Harvard in addi- 
 tion to its own depleted numbers, is certainly an achievement for 
 which the Universiljy may well feel considerable satisfaction. 
 
The Radio School is in command of Lieutenant Commander 
 Nathaniel F. Ayer, U.S.N. R.F., a graduate of Harvard College in 
 the Class of 1900. The course of instruction is seventeen weeks in 
 length. A new course is started every Monday morning, and 
 approximately 150 men are graduated on each Saturday morning. 
 
 The Committee has inspected several of the buildings used by 
 the School, and particularly Pierce Hall. It is felt that the extra- 
 ordinary growth of the School makes necessary the use of the entire 
 building of Pierce Hall and that the few members of the University 
 who are still using the Hall should be accommodated elsewhere. 
 
 III. Other War Activities 
 
 The other War activities conducted by the University have been 
 manifold in number and of widely different types. The range of 
 these activities is indicated by a recital of the following. 
 
 At the request of the Council of National Defence, the Graduate 
 School of Business Administration established two courses of 
 special training for those intending to enter the Quartermaster or 
 Ordnance Corps; one course on Military Stores-keeping, and the 
 other on Cost Inspection for War Contracts. In addition, a course 
 on Supply, for prospective officers of the line, was offered to mem- 
 bers of the Harvard R. 0. T. C. In these three courses were 
 enrolled 145 men. 
 
 The Medical School has given, at the request of the Surgeon 
 General, courses in medicine for the Army and Navy and a course 
 in orthopedic surgery for selected members of the Medical Corps. 
 The medical personnel of four base hospital units has been com- 
 posed almost wholly of members of the teaching force of the 
 Harvard Medical School, or of its graduates; including the Har- 
 vard Surgical Unit, which occupies Base Hospital 22 with the 
 British Expeditionary Force in France under the command of Dr. 
 Hugh Cabot, '94, M. '98; the unit of the Medical School formed 
 in connection with the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital under the 
 lead of Dr. Harvey Gushing, M. '95; and the units of the Massa- 
 chusetts General Hospital and of the Boston City Hospital. 
 
 Upon the request of the Government, the cHnic of the Harvard 
 Dental School with its 125 chairs has been utilized to give dental 
 treatment to drafted men, and the Dental School also maintains 
 two chairs at the Radio School and one at the Commonwealth Pier 
 for members of the Naval Reserve. 
 
Under the auspices of the Summer School, a number of courses 
 were given on subjects relating to the War; the Bussey Institution 
 is the headquarters of the Botanical Raw Products Committee 
 organized under the Council for National Defence; and the Psy- 
 chological Laboratory has been engaged in devising and standardiz- 
 ing tests for the selection of aviation volunteers. 
 
 At the request of the authorities of the Charlestown Navy Yard, 
 members of the Department of German acted as translators of 
 records and inscriptions on German steamers seized by the Gov- 
 ernment; while members of the French Department, at the request 
 of the War Department, spent the summer months at West Point 
 helping the cadets become proficient in French conversation. 
 
 The American University Union, in Paris, has been estabhshed 
 by the leading American colleges and technical schools to meet the 
 needs of American college men and their friends in Europe. For 
 the convenience of Harvard men, a Bureau has been established in 
 this Union as the center for all information relating to Harvard 
 men abroad. A most valuable War service is being rendered by 
 the Union and by this Bureau. 
 
 The records of Harvard men in War service are being kept sys- 
 tematically and efficiently by the Harvard War Records Committee 
 in the Harvard Union, under the direction of Frederick S. Mead, 
 '87. On October 11, 1917, the Harvard Alumni Bulletin compiled 
 the fist of those in War Service as follows : 
 
 United States Army 1,997 
 
 United States Navy 713 
 
 Foreign Armies 122 
 
 Medical and Surgical Service 591 
 
 Harvard R. O. T. C. and other military bodies 917 
 
 Ambulance Service 420 
 
 Red Cross and other relief work 229 
 
 National, State, and other committee work 498 
 
 Miscellaneous 125 
 
 Total 5,612 
 
 The number is now, of course, much larger. ' 
 
 It may also not be out of place to report that on January 1, 1918, 
 the Harvard Club of New York City, out of a total membership of 
 4,919, old and young, resident and non-resident, had records of 870 
 members in the American, Belgian, British and French Armies 
 and in the American Navy, as well as 44 members engaged in Field 
 Service of the Red^jCross in Europe and of the Y. M. C. A., about 
 
one out of every five members, therefore, being in active service, 
 while many hundreds more were helping and serving in other ways. 
 
 The drain upon the members of the University has of course 
 been great, as is shown by the President's report, the loss in stu- 
 dents this year being about 2,000 from the numbers of last year, 
 with a considerable loss in the teaching force. 
 
 Thus, in countless ways have the University and its sons given 
 to the service of the Nation. 
 
 IV. Recommendations 
 
 So long as this World War shall continue, and until a satisfactory 
 peace is achieved, the main object of the University must be to 
 render every assistance possible to the Government in the prosecu- 
 tion of the War, consistent with maintaining its functions as a 
 University and preserving its usefulness for the period of recon- 
 struction after the War and the future. The services already 
 rendered by the University and its sons have been in all respects 
 commendable. Under the leadership of President Lowell, the 
 University has already offered to the Government every faciHty 
 and has rendered services of which we may all feel proud. That 
 the usefulness of the University in the future will be even greater 
 than it has been in the past, seems clear. New calls will come from 
 time to time and new opportunities be open. That these will be 
 met in the spirit of the highest and broadest disinterested patriot- 
 ism is assured, and the working out of the future service of the 
 University may safely be left in the hands of President Lowell and 
 those cooperating with him. This Committee commends most 
 heartily the accompHshments of the past and urges a continuance 
 and development of the service of the University to the Nation as 
 the War progresses. 
 
 With respect to specific recommendations, your Committee 
 makes the following suggestions : 
 
 1. That the efforts of the President of the University to secure an 
 amendment of the National Defence Act of June 3, 1916, should, 
 when the time seems ripe, be renewed, in behalf not only of Harvard, 
 but also of all other colleges giving adequate military training, in the 
 following particulars : 
 
 (a) In order to permit of the assignment of reserve and other avail- 
 able officers to instruction in the colleges. Section 45 of the Act 
 should be amended by inserting at the end of the first sentence 
 the words " provided that during the existing emergency, 
 reserve and other officers, as well as regular ofl&cers, may be 
 assigned to this duty irrespective of their periods of service "; 
 
(6) In order to provide for the commissioning in the United States 
 Reserve of graduates of Reserve Officers' Training Corps at 
 colleges without the necessity of repeating much of their work 
 at Officers' Training Camps, Sections 49 and 50 of the Act should 
 be amended to provide that during the existing emergency the 
 amount of training to qualify students for commissions in the 
 Army shall be reckoned in hours, and that eligibility for com- 
 missions shall depend on the satisfactory completion of the 
 hours of training required without regard to the number of 
 years in which it is done. 
 
 2. In order that the training of the Harvard R. 0. T. C. may be brought 
 to a higher perfection, a Drill Hall should be provided for the winter 
 training. 
 
 3. Throughout the War, Harvard should continue summer camps for 
 intensive training, open not only to Harvard men but as broadly as 
 possible to all men properly qualified, particularly those too young 
 to attend the Government camps. 
 
 4. The Navy Department should be asked to commission as Ensigns, 
 without the requirement of attendance at any further Government 
 School, graduates of the Harvard Naval course, and of similar courses 
 at other colleges, on their passing the examinations prescribed by 
 the Government. 
 
 5. The Committee feels that the suggestion of Captain James P. 
 Parker of the Cadet School should be brought to the attention of 
 the Government, to the effect that the several similar schools on the 
 Atlantic Seaboard might well be consolidated into one school held at 
 Harvard, thereby promoting efficiency and saving expense. 
 
 6. The extraordinary growth of the Radio School requires that all of 
 the available facilities needed by it be generously placed at its dis- 
 posal, and your Committee feels that the Professors and other mem- 
 bers of the University now using parts of Pierce Hall should be 
 accommodated elsewhere, in order that the whole of that Hall may 
 be not only used for the Radio School, but also under its sole com- 
 mand. 
 
 Respectfully submitted, 
 
 LANGDON P. MARVIN, Chairman, 
 LEONARD WOOD, 
 FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, 
 ARTHUR WOODS, 
 ELIOT WADSWORTH, 
 SAMUEL D. PARKER, 
 GEORGE BATY BLAKE, 
 AMOS TUCK FRENCH, 
 GEORGE C. SHATTUCK, 
 ALEXANDER WHITESIDE, 
 Committee on Military Science and Tactics. 
 February 25, 1918. 
 
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