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...might say, too, that military training is the other half of all education of character. Training of the will must begin with control of the body. Moral training must have at least two sides: theoretical instruction in ethical principles, and the actual development of habits. Greek education made the habit-building primary: their "gymnastics" had the purpose of building body and character alike. Our universities have all but dropped the development of the will by habit. Of course, every task and responsibility involves some moral training, and every college has its routine of demands. But the foundation of all character...
...requests for the course come mostly from former officers and privates of Battery A and form the Plattsburg men who took the artillery course there. The purpose of the school is to train men for officers of artillery and to give them practice in fire control and the handling of battery. The instruction in the armory will be with a terrain board and blackboard, and when spring comes there will be supplementary outside work. Anyone who has found that joining Battery A would take too much of his time and who has had some military experience may become a member...
...Harvard men in the last six months that to procure efficiency in peace and war there is great merit in implicit obedience. How is that as an educational doctrine among Harvard men? In the education which we received it was not obedience which was taught to us, but self-control and the development of personal initiative...
...accordance with the rule by which the general control of Freshman affairs before the mid-year elections is in the hands of the Executive Committee of the Student Council, the following men have been already nominated as members of the House Committee of the several dormitories: Gore--H. C. Flower, Jr., R. C. Clement, C. W. Greenough; Standish--A. Perkins, M. Phinney, E. W. Pervere; Smith--C. D. Murray, W. B. Felton, S. R. Dunham...
...with reference to the last two points that the case is of interest to Harvard students. In each of the cases in which registration was granted, the applicant presented evidence to show that he was wholly or in part self-supporting, and that he was free from parental control. Of the four men who were refused registration, one withdrew his application, one had attained his majority within the six months, necessary to establish residence, while the other two admitted receiving a measure of their support from their parents...