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...undemocratic. Since then more than seventy of their classmates have taken the same stand. On last Wednesday the struggle entered a new phase, when seven prominent seniors resigned from their clubs and joined the insurgent sophomores, as an open and vigorous protest against the system which they could not reform from the inside...
Universal military service is still a dream of the future. In the meantime, the crying need of America is reform in the army organization. Although we Federalize the militia and double the attendance at the summer military camps, the regular army must always remain our first line of defence. Yet our army today is pitifully small, disproportionately expensive, and inefficient. It numbers 74,000 men in the United States proper, it costs $1,000 per soldier, which is ten times the amount Switzerland expends, and the difficulty of its mobilization on the Mexican border last summer would have been ludicrous...
...addition to the three-mile reform Mr. Mapes announced a change in the eligibility rules which will put a curb on the presence in university boats of men who had gained experience on boat club crews. The change makes the standard of entry into the Poughkeepsie regatta similar to that which governs entry into events of the Intercollegiate Association of Amateur Athletes of America...
...they will also probably be termed, while it is not unlikely that distinguished authority will apply the opprobrious but hitherto unexplained adjective 'professional" as a further qualification to their pacifism. And in sober truth, it is sometimes difficult for even the most principled toleration to regard cranky objectors to reform with equanimity...
...significant thing is that the Princeton faculty hopes that the movement of the little company of sophomore reformers will succeed. The club elections have come to be too important a feature of school life, almost making or marring a college course. The best men do not always disclose themselves during the two years in which the upper classmen are "looking over the material" and making their selections for the coveted memberships. Some men are good mixers and others are shy and make their way slowly. Some are predominantly athletic, some altogether athletic, some are grinds and others are general good...