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COMMENT

Greater Reputations at Stake.

Unless memory is at fault it took Harvard Law School some time last spring to regard it as the part of wisdom to allow some leaway to such students of the School as wanted to go to Plattsburg training camp. Despite the fact that it eventually saw the light, it seems now to have returned to the position it took at the beginning of the war. According to advices from Cambridge, it has repealed the vote whereby men leaving college three or four weeks early to enter the service shall be given credit for a full year's work. This repeal, incidentally, has aroused considerable resentment among the students and stirred the CRIMSON to an editorial which speaks of a "lack of fulfillment of patriotic duty." . ... . But, logic or no logic, the CRIMSON is right. This is no time to let a few weeks stand in the way of the patriotic future of any man. At the moment, reputations greater than that of any professional school at are stake. The country needs army officers and every intelligent man who wants to become one should be given all encouragement. Least of all should he be penalized for his desire to be of the utmost service to the nation. Boston Transcript.

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