Word: journalism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This somewhat guarded remark of a thinking officer points out a condition, often overlooked by the editor of the local journal enthusiastic over the "native sons training at Camp X--". The C. M. T. C. training, valuable in itself, can only hope to develop men well versed in the fundamentals of elementary drill and physical development,--in a month nothing more is possible. Congressmen, who, having voted for a diminutive army, attempt to defend their action by pointing to the C. M. T. C. students as "our able defenders of the future," are not only deceiving their constituents, but themselves...
...mysteries of the life beyond death, science will doubtless reveal many clues in time, but one must be distinctly credulous to accept Sir Conan Doyle's criteria in the meantime because he invented Sherlock Holmes. San Francisco Journal...
...truth to the scribes of this journal it is a matter of great debate and discouragement to answer the question which doth appear to us when we reflect upon how many there be among us who have not learned to relish the fruits of knowledge. 'How dull,' saith the uncultured as, yawning and stretching they emerge from the halls of learning. Wherefore must we abide these stupid dispensers of insipid facts. They interest us not with their long dissertations upon the doings of kings...
...annual report of the Superintendent of the United States Military Academy has prompted an interesting editorial in the "Providence Journal". It seems that West Point is seeking to learn from civilian institutions, thus raising the question of what those institutions may learn from West Point. According to the "Journal" a Harvard professor (one of the Academy's teaching force) found at West Point a unique example of democracy. The men there come from every section and every class in the country; they do everything in common, eat together, study the same subjects, go through the identical daily routine, have...
...this is very fine and the superiority of the system, as the "Journal" suggests, is unquestioned,-if it is not forgotten that West Point is educating army officers. However much the Harvard professor may have been impressed by this democracy, the fact remains that it is of very little interest to civilian institutions. In the first place the colleges are educating men for civil life where democracy does not consist in eating, the name food, wearing the same clothes, and doing things in common. Secondly, if individuality is really worth while, as at Harvard for instance, then democracy as pictured...