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Recent orders received by Major William F. Flynn, commandant of the University R. O. T. C., from Adjutant-General Learnard of the War Department, Washington, D. C., announce the establishment of a training committee with a major-general at its head to supervise and direct all tactical and specialist training schools for officers and cadets training for officers' commissions. Although not yet named, the major-general in charge of the work and his staff of assistants will be appointed in the near future, and will assume the task of inspecting and unifying the various branches...
...special staff corps representatives, has been designated as the centre of instruction of troops in the United States and the direct representative of the Chief of Staff. Associated with the director of training and training committee are the British and French military attaches, Generals Maclachlan and Vignal, and officer specialists and advisers of both Allied Armies. The functions of the training committee are as follows: To maintain close relations with expeditionary forces abroad and with troops undergoing training in the United States with a view to co-ordinating training to the end that instruction may be progressive; to prepare plans...
...addition to these courses which are intended to teach men subjects beneficial to them in their trade or business, there are classes in stammering and classes in reading to blind men. Of course, the former must be conducted by a specialist, but the latter opens an opportunity for social service to everyone in the University...
...give the message that international law is not of the past, and to interpret to no small degree the present policies of belligerent and neutral states, is in large measure the aim of the courses given in international law this year. One short hour's talk from a specialist would probably convince the most aseptically of students of the folly of his thoughts. But should words fall; let him elect one of these courses and speedily discover that he was dealing with a very lively corpse indeed...
...scoff at the value of colleges in what they like to regard as the real things of life. First there is the self-made man whose marvelous success so biases his personal opinions that he is unable to think except in terms of self. Then comes the trained specialist whose whole education has been limited to a certain field and who has completely disregarded whatever was irrelevant to his chosen province. It is true this fellow will admit that one may get a start in the right direction at college, the right direction being his own field of work...