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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...nine military regions furnish us with 50,000 men, constituting thus an admirable civic guard. In order to become a member of this guard a recruit must be an honest man, resolved to maintain public order...
...child studies just what he pleases and in just as advanced degree as he is capable. Those who desire only a manual education are tempted to pilfer intellectual learning. Mental horsemanship is stimulated by horse-stealing rather than by gift horses. The pupils maintain their own discipline - they take two months' vacation each year at their own convenience-in Winter or Summer as they prefer. This plan keeps school equipment in continuous use. Coupled with this arrangement is the division of the school body into groups which use classrooms, shops and playgrounds alternately-an attractive seat-saving device...
...consider the R. O. T. C. a very important part of our national defence system," declared General Pershing in an interview for the CRIMSON. "It is destined to become the principal source from which reserve officers are to be obtained to maintain the quota." General Pershing then discussed the value of R. O. T. C. training to the college and the individual saying. "It is considered by educators as a very definite means of maintaining discipline in the various colleges and academies where these units exist. There is another feature which I consider also of foremost importance and that...
...work of the R. O. T. C. in the colleges are valuable chiefly as an illustration of the purely professional point of view toward military activities. Last year in a special article for the CRIMSON, General Edwards sounded the call to arms oy insisting that no college man could "maintain his self-respect" if he failed actively to prepare for the "next war" and by denouncing as "soft, mushy propaganda" the sentiment which put the ideal of peace above any other. General Pershing seems of somewhat the same opinion but has been more guarded in proposing that a "daily routine...
Paris. The Poincaré Government was forced by circumstances to divert its attention from Ruhr rumbles to Italo-Greek growls. Premier Poincaré was active in preventing war by counselling the interested Powers to maintain the status quo pending the Council of Ambassadors' (not the League's) decision. He also sent an advisory note to Greece to the same effect. In the event of war, France's position is uncertain. The Parisian press is divided on the trouble, the Left and Left-Centre newspapers being pro-Greek, while the Right and Right-Centre journals are pro-Italian...