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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...
...counting Hawaii and Porto Rico, there were fifty-two land grant colleges and universities having a required term of military service, and these enrolled in their military departments 23,864 students. The movement favored by President Schurman is thus already on its way, but to date, the Government has paid little attention to the work, and it is a definite course of action which is suggested...
President Schurman urges in the first place that the Government offer such commissions in the regular army to the best trained men in the military 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...
President Schurman of Cornell, addressing the annual meeting of the Board of Trustees, spoke of the task which, because of the European war, has devolved upon the American universities. "So long as the European up-heaval continues, it will devolve on the colleges and universities of America to take the lead in upholding the civilization of the world." Continuing on the subject of the military training given at Cornell President Schurman said: "Valuable as a military training is for the individual himself and for the Republic, it is of course only an incident in the main work and business...
International law and diplomacy will be the subject of a course which President Jacob Gould Schurman will deliver at Cornell University this year. This is the first time in a number of years that the president has personally conducted a lecture course in the University. As United States Ambassador to Greece throughout all the Balkan trouble, President Schurman has come into close contact with many interesting points in international law and diplomacy, and with the present war raging in Europe, the course promises to be very interesting...