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Westerners Rout Cadets...
...lecture system. This feeling is certain to grow and unless the colleges respond to it in some way their hold on the more intelligent men in America and on the intellectual life of the country is sure to weaken. Their already feeble resistance to technical education will become a rout. The trouble with the lecture system is that it keeps a chap at 21 or 22 working on his old prep school subjects of Literature, Mathematics, History and Natural Science in the prep school way. Daily assignments are designed to occupy all of his time and it is presumed that...
Kopf, Merritt, Bruce and Ross are the only men on the Hanover nine this afternoon who participated in the 9-0 rout of the University team last spring. Merritt has been moved in from the outfield to third, while Kopf, brother of Kopf of the Cincinnati Reds, is playing his old position at second. Both these men have been showing good form this season, although Merritt feels a little awkward at his new post. Robertson, the lanky first baseman, is the strongest man on the infield, combing a long reach with a steady...
...must push the assault, backed with decreasing artillery support and supplied over more and more tenuous lines of transport service. In this he is likely to over-reach himself, and when he does we can count on the strategist Foch, who commands the reserves, to counter-attack relentlessly. The rout into which a demoralized victory can be transformed is well illustrated by the slaughter of Russians following their advances into East Prussia and Galicia...
...salute in the army--and this is true of all armies except the army that ran away before the Germans in Russia recently--is a symbol of the discipline without which an army is an ungovernable mob which a handful of real soldiers can put to rout. The young ignoramus who writes from Camp asks, "Why should an American citizen humble himself to every stripe or collar mark that indicates a grade higher in the service than himself?" The answer is that he does not humble himself. The salute is a mark of respect not given to the individual...