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...Referring to the subject matter of your communication, I would say, that to make efficient army officers, the best plan would be to adopt the West Point system as far as practicable...
...student does not give one the right to be assessed and registered there unless there exist the two things I have stated and emphasized--to wit, that he actually went there to make his residence with the intention to abandon the residence from which he came, to adopt this as his residence not merely for the definite time of his college course, four years, but an indefinite time with that interest to make it his residence...
...needed; and the Swiss system, from the point of view of the greatest benefit to the individual, the health and morale of the country and adequate defense for the nation, has unquestionably demonstrated its superiority over any other system that has ever been put forward. Then why not adopt it? is the question in the minds of everyone when he has finished this book. And when we think of the vast sums that are spent each day in luxuries and pleasures and in building magnificent public buildings in insignificant towns, we wonder more than ever how long it will take...
...student does not give one the right to be assessed and registered there unless there exist the two things I have stated and emphasized--to wit, that he actually went there to make his residence with the intent to abandon the residence from which he came, to adopt this as his residence not merely for the definite time of his college course, four years, but an indefinite time with that interest to make it his residence...
...best of the two articles on the summer military expedition of "our boys," which with J. A. Goldthwait '17's. "With Battery A on the Border," forms a readable report of activities at the front. "Twilight Practice," by W. J. Littlefield '16, who persuaded the football management to adopt the Stadium lighting scheme, is another article of current interest...