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...training camps together with the encouraged promotion of men from the ranks, leaves preliminary instruction more necessary than ever. Whether or not the present system of sending men to Yaphank continues, we know that ultimately a man of sufficient calibre will be an officer, and that thorough preparation will hasten the attainment of this end. The duty of R. O. T. C.'s is to provide not merely candidates for special camps, but soldiers with sufficient bearing and knowledge to mark them out at once as leaders. To all who are so trained General Pershing's plan assures a commission...
...must not, therefore, hasten to condemn negro troops. They have shown their mettle in many a skirmish, and the Houston affair is merely an incident which discredit individuals, not a race. The individuals have suffered, the race should...
This feeling of recoil, even of hatred, is human enough to be easily comprehensible, but does its stimulation into a frenzy hasten or retard our war-making and is it, therefore, to be encouraged or discouraged? We fail to see how an American, by refusing to hear an orchestra play the music of Mozart or Beethoven, either spites or weakens the Kaiser or adds a bit to our fighting strength. Why not keep our energies within effective channels. --Boston Advertiser...
...ships to be convoyed across the Atlantic, and to destroy the menace of the submarine. The building up of your navy and merchant marine, resulting in a destroying of the submarine warfare, will remove Germany's last hope of winning the war and I also believe that it will hasten the end of the war if Germany sees that America is really in earnest and preparing in every possible way to use her full strength. This country can end the war by her navy alone before it will be necessary to send ships or soldiers to Europe, but the process...
...editors of the Freshman Red Book have decided that even if war should occur between the United States and Germany, the Red Book will nevertheless be published. Because of the probability of the war starting within a short time, it has been decided to hasten the work in all the departments as much as possible. This is especially necessary in the photographic department as the members of the Naval Reserve and the men who will take up training in the aviation section of the Signal Officers' Reserve Corps may leave College shortly. The photographic committee has fortunately obtained the pictures...