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...sturdy farmer so longer defends his one man castle. The flintlock has been superceded by breech loading machine guns which fire four hundred shots at a clip. To defend his home a man may have to defend a trench some four thousand miles away, over seas and foreign soil. From our expert and trusted correspondents in Berlin we learn also that the German general staff has not included in its plan of war a campaign against Fitchburg, or an invasion into becastled Quincy. The home guards might well, so far as the Germans are concerned, enbalm their pre-Spanish...
...must come as a satisfaction to all Americans to know that the French Commission has arrived safely on its native soil. It was only a bare twelve days ago that we welcomed the Commission, and notably Marshal Joffre, to Harvard with all the honor and all the friendship that we might show...
...universal comprehension of a national need is praise-worthy. But unfortunately modern armies are not composed of simple elements. They are vastly complex, and the abilities which go to make them must be vastly complex. We need officers of the battle-line; we need cultivation of our productive soil. But we need in addition, engineers and artillery men, manufacturers, business men, doctors. If we turn all our technical school men into infantry officers, we shall have no bridges to cross, for none will be built. If we turn all our medical students into farmers, the armies at the front will...
...services are most wanted. We need in deadly earnestness food for our armies and the armies of our allies. But the cause is somewhat less just if those men whose only acquaintance with agriculture has consisted in cultivating a small-sized moustache or in cultivating unwilling acquaintances, seek that soil which they have never known. They will probably make excessively poor farmers. They might make, under a good top-sergeant, with good stiff work, middling fair constituents of the rank and file...
...supplement to the recent faculty resolutions passed at Brown, which give credit to students who leave college to go into farming, and in order to emphasize the need of agriculture and intensive cultivation of the soil in the present crisis, President Faunce, of that university, has come out personally in favor of it. He has stated that "65 acres of land in Scituate have been secured on which a picked group of Brown students will be able to camp and devote the summer to cultivation...