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...current number of Every body's Magazine, President Jacob Gould Schurman, LL.D. '09, of Cornell, puts forth some interesting views on the question of military training in the colleges. He bases his article on the problem of national defence and on the country's present un preparedness to cope with attack, and offers as a solution of the problem the systematic tutoring of college men for positions as officers in time of emergency. President Schurman does not advance his view simply as a possible scheme; he regards such a course as the only remedy for the precarious conditions...
...declared that 300,000 men would be necessary at the outset of an attack on this country; the total available mobile force is at present less than 90,000, and that discrepancy, coupled with the absolute need of thousands of more officers to train recruits, makes up our present problem...
...course, when a man enters college at twenty, the college cannot be expected to graduate him in one year so that he may start in his work in the world outside of college at the same time as the man who enters at seventeen. The problem of getting men to enter college when they are seventeen, the age suggested by President Lowell, cannot be solved by any University. It can be suggested, as President Lowell has done in his report, but there must be country-wide education in the matter before there will be any perceptible increase in the number...
When Mr. Osborne was appointed warden of Sing Sing a short while ago, conditions there were very unsettled, and dissatisfaction with conditions had reached almost to the point of revolt among the inmates. Taking hold of the problem at once, he instituted a series of changes which almost immediately gained the confidence of the prisoners, and now the spirit of the men is one of co-operation with their keeper. Mr. Osborne's talk this afternoon will deal mainly with his experience with his "prison-going friends." The lecture is open to all members of the University...
...Dance day. It is planned to have as many as possible of those who are to attend the Dance at night present at the tea-dance in the afternoon so that the dancers may be introduced to their partners before the evening assembly. In the past one of the problems of the Dance has been to provide a method whereby the guests might meet one another before late in the evening. The Pudding tea-dance, it is expected, will aid in solving this problem...