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...great fault, however, these chronic iconoclasts overlooked. The main business of colleges is teaching; not teaching; this or teaching that, but simply teaching. The colleges ask what is to be taught, and having been informed, they get the best men to be had in the world and teach as no other force can do. And so when war became upper-most in the minds of the American people, the colleges took up their torches to proceed in that direction. It was a new subject, but the business of teaching was as old as the hills. They immediately sought those...
...here, however willing were those young men, and however great was the need of training, they had been relegated to the less exciting and less glorious post of war. Yet with large vision and broad sympathy they saw the needs and the possibilities of the lessons which they might teach, and have worked without rest in the teaching...
...There will be, therefore, next year about 50 men who will still want naval training. Added to this number we hope that there will be many Freshmen. We, therefore, plan first to obtain a boat of sufficient size to enable us to go to sea in the afternoon and teach the boys the practical side of navigation...
Although this system will disturb the companies every two weeks by breaking up their organization, it will give training that could not be had in any other manner, and will teach the entire body of cadets, instead of a few dozen officers, the work of a responsible position...
...when we know that men in this simple way are learning to save themselves, in so far as they may, from terrible slaughter in battles, and learning that they may teach others to be saved, the game takes on a new meaning. It is not a boys' game played by boys with wooden rifles and paper hats who simulate the excitement of war. It is a man's game, and learning to play it may be worth in time our own poor lives, and the greater success of our cause...