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...foundation on which to work. The college men of England furnished a great many officers for the army, and it does look now as if this class of men were going to provide the officers for the United States, because from practical experience college men seem to make the best officers. They are usually athletes and accustomed to the co-operation and discipline and team-work of athletics, all of which are a great help to the understanding of military discipline so necessary in the successful army...
...great danger in democracy is that people resent any presence of necessary discipline as opposed to freedom; it is not necessary to Prussianize a nation through militarism, but an athlete knows that discipline and control are necessary to his own freedom in order to do his best work...
...Training Corps is certainly on the right track, and a small contingent of United States soldiers sent over to Europe would greatly strengthen the bonds between free countries, and the reception they would get in England and France would be extraordinary. It will be worth while to establish the best kind of relations because perhaps ten years from now it will be a good idea for England and America to be together on the side of democracy...
...members of the R. O. T. C. The examinations start five days after the vacation and are to be extended over one week only. This means that while they are in progress there will be little time for reviewing. Concentration on scholastic work during vacation is difficult at best, but this spring it is an opportunity which men who expect to be officers cannot afford to neglect. Dismissal from both the University and the Reserve Corps is too high a price to pay for eight days of thoughtless indifference to work...
...recess which starts today is the best possible chance for this decision, when every man will be able to discuss the question calmly and seriously at home, and decide what course he is to follow. Until now there has been some excuse for indecision. A week from now there will be none...