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...instructive discussion of Militarism from the viewpoint of a soldier apeared in the Infantry Journal for November, 1910. Reprints of this may be secured from the War Department. The object of the writer, Captain Crawford, is to induce a wider intelligent discussion of the subject. A more modest aim, fit to be suggested here, is that before anyone discuss Militarism, in or out of print, he learn something of both sides of the question, and not permit hones for the future cause him to neglect to even consider present day problems. AN AMATBUR SOLDIER...
Quite contrary to the usual policy, the crew management has this year seen fit to restrict at this early date, the number of candidates to the lowest minimum. This means that only those men on the University and class boats will be allowed further development. This policy seems open to criticism. Athletics are, in a primary sense, the means of affording physical training. To give the many daily exercise and training, there in lies the value. Athletics are not a business; they are recreation. And the moment their benefits are restricted to a few, they lose their fundamental value. This...
...departments of our colleges and universities, that after a year, they may return to civil life, retaining their commissions as officers of the reserve. Next, he suggests that such institutions as already have military training go a step further and establish regular military departments, in which those desiring to fit themselves for the military profession might study the theoretical branches underlying that profession, as is now done at West Point, while at the same time undergoing a more extensive and intensive practical military training than that now required of other students." These departments should, he declares, be established by Federal...
...view of Congressman Gardner's assertion that this country is totally unprepared for war, would it not be a good plan for Harvard to fit her men, so that if war should come they would be better able to serve their country? "In times of peace prepare for war" is an axiom which, although little heeded in this country, has been proven by Germany to be only too true. Two hour's drilling a week would not materially disarrange the life of the students. Besides preparing them for an emergency, the drills would be beneficial in a moral and physical...
...tried by a convicts' court, the silence rules have been greatly alleviated, the supervision is now much less strict and other similar changes have been made. The attitude of the prisoners has changed remarkably, and everything indicates that in time the men who leave Sing Sing will be really fit for citizenship in the outside world...