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...university curriculum, according to a statement by Professor R. M. M. McElroy of Princeton. The intellectual side of military training, lectures, and other instruction, he believes to be a proper part of college work, but the drill should be reserved for summer military camps. Princeton tried to establish a training corps at the time of the Spanish War, and it was found to be a failure...
Professor McElroy says: "In Princeton we have not instituted military drill, and there is little indication on the part either of the Faculty or of the student body of a desire to establish it. Modern military training involves two rather distinct elements, the one intellectual, the other largely physical. The first we believe to be part of a university curriculum; the second can be most economically and effectively managed by the National Military Training Camps...
...constructive mind is alone able to cope with existing problems. Thousands of men can add up columns of figures correctly, remember any number of recorded law cases, or know every law in chemistry,--but it is the exceptional man who with the aid of a constructive mind, can establish an improved system in the business organization of the country, or make a discovery in science...
...University of Columbia is to establish a School of Business which will be similar in several important respects to the University. The following are extracts of an article from the "Columbia Alumni News...
...March 9, 1866, of the first number of the Collegian--a fortnightly "newspaper intended to represent the views and opinions of Harvard students"--began the present era of University journalism. The Collegian was outspoken and caustic in tone. It deplored the "little disposition manifested by the instructors to establish and confirm a friendship between the student and themselves"; it attacked with keen satire compulsory church attendance on Sunday and the system of compulsory chapel. After its third issue the Collegian was suppressed by the Faculty, and the editors were forbidden under pain of expulsion to publish any paper whatsoever...