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Having determined the framework needed for proper organization of an army, the first step should be to obtain the officers necessary to carry out the training. It is not the intention of the War Department to make use of educational institutions in developing military geniuses, but rather to obtain men who, as officers, will be of an average efficiency, and thus preserve the general level of instruction and efficiency throughout the service, both active and reserve...
This brief resume of the system proposed by the War Department explains the use which will be made of the best material we have in this country for officers, and will not only improve the average efficiency of reserve organizations, but also spread throughout the country a better, more sane and safe program of preparedness--preparedness in a matter which is of vital importance,--that of obtaining trained officers before even any men are enlisted for new organizations...
...good results. By meeting the professors, together with their assistants, in several of the larger courses, and by discussing with them the general problem, the secretary has made reasonably sure that few undergraduates will in the long run escape finding themselves in at least one course in which the use of bad English is likely to be reported. Many instructors, moreover, pay attention to the English of their students without sending them to the committee; if such an attitude were universal, the work of the committee would become to a large extent unnecessary...
...Holcombe '06, and Mr. W. C. Greene '11, secretary, has "endeavored to secure, through the co-operation of instructors, a greater attention on the part of students to clear and correct English in written work in all subjects. It has also taken steps, in the case of students whose use of English has been unsatisfactory, to help these students to remedy their deficiencies...
...accordance with the resolutions creating the committee, instructors have been requested to report "all students whose use of English has been unsatisfactory, whether in the matter of clear and orderly thought or in the details of expression." Up to the present date, 235 students have been reported, distributed as follows: Regular undergraduates, 195 Unclassified undergraduates, 33 Students out of course, 2 Special student, 1 Graduate students...