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...world, has had an active and varied service in the European war, enlisting not long after the outbreak of the struggle and spending six months of the fall and winter of 1914-15 in training at Aldershot with the raw material from which Lord Kitchener formed the "first hundred thousand." His regiment, the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, was among the first sent to the front, and with others composed the first army sent to France by England, known as "the first hundred thousand" and also "K 1" and "Kitchener's Mob." Captain Beith has had a brilliant record...
Arrangements have been completed whereby the Reserve Officers' Training Corps will have for use in a very short time a thousand Springfield rifles in place of the Krag-Jorgensens in use at present. The Corps is very fortunate to be able to secure these new guns at the present time, for there is a heavy demand for them from military organizations throughout the country, and in addition every available weapon will be needed for the new army which the Government will raise. It is expected that the rifles will be delivered by the time the R. O. T. C. goes...
Whatever vestige of exterior and shallow judgments remains with us should now fall away in the levelling of war. When a thousand men are put in uniform the incipient politician may not measure the great or the near-great by examining whether their shoes are custom-made, or their hats come from New York. The prettiest fop does not show distinction in company front after an afternoon of drill in column and line formations. The assurance gained in talking to paid and obedient servants does not help greatly in telling a platoon of strong and aggressive men to deploy...
...first increment of five hundred thousand volunteers will doubtless be asked for within a short time. The method of raising this first army is the difficult problem that Congress will have to solve. When the need of trained men is so apparent as it is now, the great value of a system of universal military training is brought home with great emphasis. If this country had introduced such a system ten years ago the Government would not be confronted with a situation it is totally unprepared to cope with. Enough men would be under arms now to form the first...
...undergraduate from Oxford states: "In Oxford University some colleges which had 300 men before the war, will often have, under the present conditions, only a handful of students, perhaps twenty or so. Ten thousand Oxford men, including graduates and undergraduates have enlisted. The large part of all the students of military age in Europe are now fighting...