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...beef, 22 oz. of bread,* 2½ oz. of beans, rice, green coffee, sugar, vinegar. Pepper was added to the menu in 1863. The daily cost of the food was 22?. By the time World War I broke out, Army rations had increased to 19 basic items, and cost per man was 33? a day. Present cost...
...case of four universities last week. But the Army and Navy can spare no instructors for leisurely R.O.T.C. courses. Consequently, some colleges are serving up bootleg military training. University of Chicago has a course in military fundamentals (artillery mathematics, military photography, marksmanship) in which it claims to give the basic R.O.T.C. course in half the time...
...takes at least three months to teach an individual the basic subjects every soldier must know, regardless of his grade and arm of service, and at least three months to then teach the same individual the fundamental duties of a commissioned officer...
...This period also affords a reasonable opportunity in which to determine whether or not the individual possesses the characteristics for leadership in battle. The course of training at the Officer Candidate School is limited to three months for the reason that accepted applicants have previously received their basic training as a soldier; hence, the first three months of basic training are actually time spent in training for a commission...
...even forgeting this period in our national history, it is hard to hold a brief for American purity. The very essence of belief in democracy denies it. We lay claim to basic truth because we feel there is a common bond in the wants of all men, because we feel that the hopes and fears that are in us are in others, because we feel that our type of liberty will unite all men. The essence of this belief is neither liberty nor equality, but fraternity. To set ourselves apart and above the remainder of the world is to deny...