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...answer to a question as to the relative value of men trained for officers under the system of the R. O. T. C. and under the system at West Point, Captain Shannon answered that there was no reason why the method here should not develop some officers fully as capable as the best graduated from West Point. "What an officer needs," he said, "is not necessarily so much book learning, but a training that makes immediate and unquestioning obedience second nature to him. A man so trained will usually make a good leader and officer. At West Point the idea...
...practical efficiency will be discussed in the lecture, as well as forms of service. The latter is intended to show the many fields in which there are opportunities open. Professor Johnston will also discuss the compulsory and volunteer systems of raising an army. After the lecture he will answer questions...
...there is an opportunity for all to serve. He will also take up the compulsory system, showing how impossible a volunteer system is for raising an army of the size that is now used. He will also discuss man power and practical efficiency. After the lecture he will answer questions...
...order to answer definitely the numerous queries as to the stand which the University would take in the event of an outbreak of hostilities between the United States and Germany, the following outline of the steps which have been taken in preparation for war was given out at the College Office yesterday afternoon...
...naturally ask, 'Why should the Entente Allies desire to draw China into the international maelstrom?' This is a question every intelligent man must answer in his own way. It is thought by some that Britain and France wish to engage freely a large number of Chinese laborers; this, however, they were free to do without the necessity of bringing China into the Entente group. She has no navy and her army is relatively a negligible quantity. In a word it seems easy to determine why China for her part should consent to a rupture of relations with Germany, but what...