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That was a valiant hope. But it was sadly untrue to what history and wisdom might teach us of the courses of revolutions. Freed from that social order and that political burden which had bound them from immemorial time, it was inevitable that the Russian people should grow exuberant with the intoxication of first liberty. Much as we, much as the Allies, might wish Russia to enter in the common war against Germany with renewed fire and fiercer incentive for victory, yet our wishes nor the wishes of the Allies could influence a people before whom an instant and more...
...them, and the institutions of the East, West, North and South are preparing themselves. If the Government wants sites for training camps, campuses are at its disposal. A dozen or more technical schools have offered the unrestricted use of their scientific laboratories for experiments; farming experts stand prepared to teach the people to live more cheaply and to conserve the nation's resources; forty state colleges which have for years had military training as a dominant feature of their curricula, will furnish officers to instruct raw recruits; and the women's colleges stand ready to carry out the Red Cross...
Cornell University, one of the institutions to benefit from the Federal Land Grant Act of 1862 which contributed a permanent fund to its endowment, support, and maintenance provided that the university "teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanical arts without excluding other scientific and classical studies, and including military tactics," has ever since its founding included a compulsory course in military science and tactics in its curriculum...
...real question raised by Dr. Flexner's proposals is not whether we shall teach Latin but whether we shall teach anything which will give the pupils something beyond the practical as popularly conceived...
...Another misfortune is that when a controversy has taken on a certain form it is impossible for us to get outside the presuppositions of that form. Dr. Flexner says: 'Teach science and practical craftsmanship.' We immediately take for granted that this means no Latin. Straightway the representatives of the classics take the stage as Dr. Flexner's principal opponent...