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...going out to take up this work have a difficult task. Under the most trying conditions they must remain prompt, cheerful and devoted to a work which demands as much patience as it does actual courage...
...young men of the country are fast realizing the task before them. Princeton is forming a volunteer battalion, Yale has a unit of the R. O. T. C., and Cornell has already enrolled 2,000 students in its military department. Harvard men have never been slow in the past to see their duty, and they have never sidestepped The desire of every student to become an officer rests on the well-known fact that the first call for volunteers will create a need for many more commissioned men than exist at present. The quickest and most thorough way for anyone...
...Princeton men--all college men, in fact--should be trained to be officers; some of them, manifestly, will fall short of attaining the degree of preparation necessary, but for the most part upon educated men should fall the task of leading in war. Obviously, officers should be trained better than the men they will command. I think the drill undergraduates will receive in the course we are now planning to institute will be of valuable assistance in providing that knowledge of formations, etc., so needed for proper preparation...
Captain Stewart Heintzelman, U. S. A., commander of the Princeton battalion, believes that all educated men should learn the task of leading in war and thinks that the drill the battalion will undergo will be beneficial to the men in preparing them for whatever branch of the service they wish to enter. He made the following statement in the Princetonian...
Although Cornell has a lot of good material this year in the distance runs and in some of the field events, the society of good sprinters and hurdlers is going to make the task of building up another championship team more difficult than usual. When Moakley had Reller and Van Winkle he was reasonably certain of placing in one or both sprints, and with Starr and Gubb in college the Ithacans were amply protected in the hurdles. Now that all these men are gone, the university must depend on untried material. The most uncertain branches, on the track teak...