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...college education under the title "Vicarious Thinking" in the New York Nation. He charges the undergraduate with intellectual sloth and the educational system with failure to awaken in him enthusiasm for ideas. This is not an occasion in which the college man should jump into the breech and unqualifiedly defend himself and the system under which he works. It is doubtful if any undergraduate can be found who, if complacent in regard to his own spiritual and intellectual condition, is satisfied with that of his fellows. Many students are not only inefficient in their studying, but lack any vital interest...
...Plattsburg Military Camp last summer, Captain Roger Dyer Swaim '01, of the First Battalion of Field Artillery, M. V. M., has arranged from school from volunteers who wish to train with a view to taking command of citizen forces, should and emergency call them into the field to defend the country...
...what was done during the recent Governor's Conference. Another interesting and instructive feature will be a demonstration of the lack of preparedness in the form of an exhibit which may become permanent and which will show in concrete form how lacking this nation is in preparedness to defend itself in case of attack by another nation...
...charges are essentially true. The most optimistic would hardly defend the intellectuality of the majority of undergraduates. Some of the causes for this condition, however, are to be found elsewhere than in the student's own depravity. The German student, for example, is usually older than the American and has had greater preparation. Moreover, this is still a new and essentially commercial country, where ideas are not so much in the minds and lives of men out of college as they are in Europe. The charge that undergraduate interest in public affairs is more of the sportsman's interest...
...safety of our own land from injury by war. They realize that defencelessness is not the best protection from aggression. Knowing that we do not covet the possessions of others, they believe that foreign nations are less likely to quarrel with us if we are well able to defend ourselves. Few again, if any, of these men want to increase our military forces in order to go to war; and they are, no doubt, right that a reasonable state of preparation is far more likely to avert than to precipitate hostilities. There is no danger of our becoming a military...