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...afternoon at 4 o'clock. The seniors are experienced in solving problems which the freshmen encounter in the engineering shops. The first part of the hour is used by the seniors in asking the freshmen questions about their work, so as to check their observation of technical details and teach them how to analyze the principles of processes. In the second half of the period the freshmen ask the seniors concerning field and shop matters which are not clear to them. So far the plan has worked admirably...
Then is it not a much cheaper and better form of preparedness to teach every interested man the rudiments of military science, so that he in time of need can quickly in turn train green recruits? For --and I speak from experience--if a few of our violent jingoists as well as a few of our rabid pacifists could be induced to spend a summer at Plattsburg, they would on the one hand have impressed upon them the awful horror of real war, and on the other, the only true means by which this calamity can be avoided...
...possibly sooner. Then either the Allies will triumph and the German menace will be permanently overwhelmed, or Germany will triumph and her menace will be a menace thrice increased. In the latter case, the utterances of German civil and military writers, as as well as her past history, teach us what to expect. And even in the event of an Allied victory, a shifting of alliances and new complications may bring us into war. All pacifists do not hold uncompromisingly to their theories whatever befalls; witness Norman Angell, who now foresees that America may be fighting half the world...
...righteousness varies inversely as our military power to do that which is good for us! Proof: Germany. Diplomatic history shows that the United States breaks its agreements when "essential to our vital interests." The only effective way of fighting the evils in the world is no longer quixotically to "teach a lesson" to other nations' evildoers, but to turn our attention to the organized viciousness of all kinds which we, in common with those other nations, have in our midst. W. A. BERRIDGE...
...such as will be offered by the Harvard Regiment. Dr. Sargent declares emphatically that military training yields inadequate and unbalanced results in physical development, and President-Emeritus Charles Eliot presumedly voices the American democratic feeling as to the "moral discipline" when he objects that we do not desire to teach boys and young men the "implicit obedience" motif, rather we desire them to think and act for themselves as men, not as units in a machine. Is not the regimentation of men into machines the very thing Americans fear and deplore in the Prussian scheme of organization...