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...highly trained minds that the country can produce. The training of such minds has been the great contribution, not only of the Harvard Law School, but of the other leading law schools in the country in the past, and it is essential that this work should continue at its highest practicable standards...
...Whereas, General Wood, Captain Danford and his associates, and the Yale graduate body have expressed strongly their conviction that Yale undergraduates of the lower classes and men under age can render their highest immediate service to country by returning to college with the opening of the fall term and continuing with their education and the military training which will be provided...
...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...
...University in every respect, and I believe that the work that is going on in the Regiment is of the utmost importance. The intensive training is being carried on with the greatest keenness, and the close order work and marching of the Regiment at the review was of the highest order and could only be surpassed by the cadets of the United States Military Academy 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...