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...view of the present work of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps the CRIMSON has compiled statistics of the positions in the Union Army held by graduates or undergraduates of the College during the Civil War. It is interesting to note that the proportion of officers to noncommissioned men was more than three...
...dangers of the battlefield before other citizens of equal age, privileges and responsibilities? There is no logical reason, and that is why the new army should be raised according to the principle of universal liability. The antiquated and undemocratic system of volunteer armies failed miserably in the Civil War. England has suffered needlessly and delayed final victory for the Allies because she clung to the old tradition of volunteer armies during the first year of the war. Surely this country will not be deaf to the advice of a glorious and respected ally that has tried old weapons and found...
...great public schools of England had much the same system as the colleges before the war with the junior branch of the Officers' Training Corps. At the end of their courses the graduates mostly went into civil life, but the experience they received in military drill while in the schools proved invaluable when the time for action came. You see, when the war broke out there was an immediate call for officers and instantly there was a response from 25,000 of the old boys, who had received training as officers in the different colleges and schools...
...have no time to afford, as we thought to our discomforture we had time to afford in our Civil War, for evasion of contracts by manufacturers, for costly and inefficient methods of supply...
...class 4, the Naval Coast Defence Reserve, "the commandant has authority to enroll anybody who would be useful on the war slate in this naval district. It embraces patrol boats, civil engineers, etc., anybody, in fact, whose services the commandant would need in various parts of the district. The main object of this class is to help secure a sufficient number of patrol boats properly manned and equipped...