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...Americans have hitherto believed that the fundamental purpose of education is not only to furnish useful information, but also to train and discipline the mind to its highest power. Consequently, those studies which experience has shown to be the most serviceable for this end have been, and should be, the fundamental subjects in any course of study. This may be an erroneous belief and if it should prove to be the case, such a course of study ought to be discarded. If not, the best manner of teaching them must be found, and instruction maintained to its full extent...
...Princeton Camp the use of the Sea Girt rifle range and camp, if the Federal Government does not commandeer it. The distance from Princeton to Sea Girt is about forty-five miles, and it is hoped that a hike there of ten days may be possible. The State will furnish all the equipment and ammunition which...
...obligations that lie before him; and until the age or the opportunity of rendering real military or other service arrives, the duty of the boy or young man is to train himself to clear thought, to steady application, and to persistent purpose. The college course is designed to furnish these things; and the only difference in the feeling that a young man should have about college in these days is a stronger determination to make the most of the opportunities it affords, to take his studies at school or college more seriously, and more with the object, as a citizen...
That is the simple record of sixteen months' development. From no beginning, under command of Captain Cordier there has been established at the University a camp prepared to furnish trained and competent officers for the country in its need. It may be believed without exaggeration that the post of Commandant of the Harvard Corps has become in the work of preparing leaders for our armies second only to the post of Commandant at West Point...
Americans, according to Dean West, have hitherto believed that the fundamental purpose of education is not only to furnish useful information, but also to train and discipline the mind to its highest power. Consequently, those studies which experience has shown to be the most serviceable for this end have been, and should be, the fundamental subjects in any course of study. This may be an erroneous belief, and if it should prove to be the case, such a course of study ought to be discarded. If not, the best manner of teaching them must be found, and instruction maintained...