The University Regiment is soon to be a reality, and in more thorough form than was at first expected. The plan as worked out in consultation with President Lowell and General Wood includes not only close and open order drill, but rifle practice, a correspondence course in map work, and a series of lectures in military science. For those who wish to count the work towards a degree additional drill in the militia or a summer camp will be required.

No more opportune time could be chosen to inaugurate a preparedness program in the University than this, when the entire country is recognizing its duty, when Congress is beginning to consider national plans for defense.

No man who has provisionally joined should fail to come forward now; and others who waited until the Battalion became a reality should show their sense of responsibility. Said President Wilson in his message to Congress: "It would depend upon the patriotic feeling of the younger men of the country whether they responded to such a call for service or not." Harvard men have patriotic feeling; their showing at Plattsburg demonstrated that. They will respond.