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Dates: during 1910-1919
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What is "adequate" preparedness? Who shall be the "experts" into whose hands this nation shall give its future? Thomas Edison, Major-General Wood or the Du-Point Powder Co.? Against whom, against what, are we thus "adequately" to prepare? Have we attained such internal unity among out sixty or more nationalities, have we even utilised one-half of the potentiality of such nationalities in building up world federation, that we should now take up in despair this old man's outworn creed and method from the war ruined hands of Europe...
...Leipzig '96, who will speak on "Industrial Research." Dr. Whitney is widely known in contemporary scientific circles as an authority on electro-chemistry and is a man of international importance in the fields of chemical research. He has been for some time director of the Research Laboratory of the General Electric Company, and has recently been appointed as a member of the Board of United States Naval Advisors...
...pacifist friends think that the whole future of the country will be in the hands of "Thomas Edison, Major-General Wood, and the DuPont Powder Co." This is far from true for only the military future will be shaped by these capable people assisted by a large, additional force of military experts. Only by the assurance of a strong defensive policy can the other national interests develop unhampered...
Fostered by the tradition of the Union Army in the Civil War, a confident feeling has grown up among the people of this country that a large army could be raised in a short space of time. General McClellan's army of the Potomac in 1862 in trying to advance averaged one mile per day, while one day the whole army retreated five miles to meet its provision train. In 1864 Grant had a body of seasoned men who accomplished something by one kind of fighting...
...explosives, or in military engineering, or in economics taking up the financial and commissary side of maintaining armies. A further consideration would be the requirement of German and Spanish as allied subjects. A reading knowledge of German is necessary to enable one to study the writings of the German General Staff, the only authority on modern warfare. These suggestions appear disordered, but out of them may come some feasible plan of action. It is undoubtedly true that war as it is played today requires specialists in all departments, and in the training of such men the University has a responsible...