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...answer to a question as to the relative value of men trained for officers under the system of the R. O. T. C. and under the system at West Point, Captain Shannon answered that there was no reason why the method here should not develop some officers fully as capable as the best graduated from West Point. "What an officer needs," he said, "is not necessarily so much book learning, but a training that makes immediate and unquestioning obedience second nature to him. A man so trained will usually make a good leader and officer. At West Point the idea...
...first increment of five hundred thousand volunteers will doubtless be asked for within a short time. The method of raising this first army is the difficult problem that Congress will have to solve. When the need of trained men is so apparent as it is now, the great value of a system of universal military training is brought home with great emphasis. If this country had introduced such a system ten years ago the Government would not be confronted with a situation it is totally unprepared to cope with. Enough men would be under arms now to form the first...
...present management of the Advocate has made one change from methods of previous years highly to be commended. In place of the former stand-and-deliver method of extracting a criticism from the reviewer when the paper to be criticized was presented to you almost without warning, and with it a virtual ultimatum that your review must be ready in three hours, now comes, with all possible courtesy and consideration, no less a person than the president of the Advocate himself, two or three weeks before he wants his review, to ask when it will be agreeable...
...true innovation of the play is the manner in which a young physician makes several other men's wives fall in love with him. The method used in each case is humorously uniform, but it is clever enough to give him a tremendous practice for a time. What happens when these methods are revealed is the cause of all the trouble...
...called armed neutrality is simply a method by which the United States may possibly induce the Germans to let armed vessels loaded with munitions escape, though under our previous practice unarmed vessels carrying contraband were liable to be sunk with notice. The sole alternative is for the Germans to fire upon a vessel prepared to fight and expected to reply with force. Therefore, apparently the only thing that can obviate war is for the Germans to forego their announced purpose of sinking every merchant ship that comes within the barred zone. Short of that, armed neutrality simply brings the whole...