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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Lunn served in the Spanish War in the Third Nebraska Infantry and has since kept well in touch with the armament question in this country. He will discuss the conflict between opportunism and Socialist principle in the attitude toward militarism, advancing his own solution of the problem...
...current number of Every body's Magazine, President Jacob Gould Schurman, LL.D. '09, of Cornell, puts forth some interesting views on the question of military training in the colleges. He bases his article on the problem of national defence and on the country's present un preparedness to cope with attack, and offers as a solution of the problem the systematic tutoring of college men for positions as officers in time of emergency. President Schurman does not advance his view simply as a possible scheme; he regards such a course as the only remedy for the precarious conditions...
...declared that 300,000 men would be necessary at the outset of an attack on this country; the total available mobile force is at present less than 90,000, and that discrepancy, coupled with the absolute need of thousands of more officers to train recruits, makes up our present problem...
...same time undergoing a more extensive and intensive practical military training than that now required of other students." These departments should, he declares, be established by Federal appropriations, the cost of each of which should not exceed $20,000 per year. Such a plan would well solve our present problem...
...course, when a man enters college at twenty, the college cannot be expected to graduate him in one year so that he may start in his work in the world outside of college at the same time as the man who enters at seventeen. The problem of getting men to enter college when they are seventeen, the age suggested by President Lowell, cannot be solved by any University. It can be suggested, as President Lowell has done in his report, but there must be country-wide education in the matter before there will be any perceptible increase in the number...