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...German arms received the lethal blow when the United States declared war. They cannot now help but fail. It has been a boast of the Hohenzollerns that each ruler added some bit to the Prussian land. The last of the Hohenzollerns will live to see that long and cruelly-wrested land snatched from him again. Will he remember Dixmonde when he hears the troops of the five great Powers crossing the Rhine? Will his heart bleed for Louvain afresh when the allies of democracy march through the plains of Prussia...
Cornell, in common with land-grant colleges, has had obligatory military service as a part of its course of study since the institution was opened to students in 1868. The university aims to give all its undergraduates enough military training to qualify them to become officers of volunteers. Military efficiency of the highest order is attained. Delinquencies in drill are treated like any other academic failure, and the five per cent, who receive failure in the drill take the work over. Officers of the rating of captain and lieutenant are given faculty rating as assistants...
...Congress, confronted by the bald fact of danger, was contemplating action. Since that vote was taken our international situation has changed from the dangerous to the imminently perilous. We are no further prepared. To be sure, we have a few training corps, and a few lady ambulanciers on the land, and a few converted pleasure boats on the water. But the nation is not more prepared to fight as a great nation than it was ten weeks ago. Nor will it be in another ten months, in spite of the self-sacrifice of our young college men, or the alertness...
Cornell University, one of the institutions to benefit from the Federal Land Grant Act of 1862 which contributed a permanent fund to its endowment, support, and maintenance provided that the university "teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanical arts without excluding other scientific and classical studies, and including military tactics," has ever since its founding included a compulsory course in military science and tactics in its curriculum...
That the Harvard Club of Boston pledges its steadfast and loyal support to the President of the United States of America in his leadership of the people to assert their rights on land and sea, and to uphold national honor and international justice...