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Probably no group of men realize more fully than those who have been to Plattsburg how much training is required to make an efficient army officer, and what slight progress can be made through the medium of the Battalion under consideration. Nor does the average man of no such experience as that of Plattsburg expect to attain to any large degree of military preparedness in the necessarily limited time which can be given to the drill and instruction of the large group of men now signed up. In fact I am convinced that for many of us the actual military...
...week before. The crew work this fall is of especial interest because it is the first season under the new coach, R. F. Herrick '90, who was appointed head coach just before fall rowing began. But in spite of the change the work started off smoothly and the progress from the very first was rapid...
...usually the older generation which holds firm in well-grooved paths the car of progress; it is the younger men who supply much of the energy and who usually point out the new directions in which progress may move. With proper flexibility and sane guidance both perform a highly valuable function in civilization. But when conservatism becomes reactionary, and when radicalism becomes flighty, the car is in danger of losing its balance...
...there is to be any enduring progress, it is imperative that younger men do not lose their originality, and enthusiasm for new ideas. In an institution such as this, where the stuff of life is thought, such intellectual relapses and stagnation are least excusable. Nevertheless, the University is situated in one of the few localities in this country in which a newspaper can advise its readers to be content to peg along in the world...