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...into two groups: first, the officers detailed by the French and American Governments to take charge of the training; second, the professors and instructors of the University who have volunteered their services in conducting the classes. Some of the latter we have seen appear with their beautifully shined puttees wrong end to. Others have walked the streets with eight inches of shoe-string dragging behind. Still others have come to parade with their R. O. T. C. insignia at a slant of forty-five degrees. They have taken delight in the clandestine publication of orders. They have demanded attendance...
...This conference is showing us many things, right and wrong, in the R. O. T. C. system, and is opening opportunities for correction and improvement. I think that one result of this will be the establishment of an annual meeting of R. O. T. C. commandants in the future extending even beyond New England...
...year will not be given to students who leave the school to enter the service unless they are drafted. Many law students are eligible for the Fourth Camp, but if they go their entire year's work will go for nought. Such an arrangement is obviously unfair and wrong. The College is going to the trouble of giving the undergraduate camp aspirants special exams.; why should not the Law School do as much? Granting that the study of law presents problems which do not exist in an academic course, nevertheless the studies of three paltry weeks should not be allowed...
Neither of these two large classes realizes that it has taken the wrong standpoint. The true educational value of the college lies in the fact that it can properly offer the happy combination of class room and outside activities. But although the college may offer this latter, it is practically powerless to see that the opportunities it offers are accepted...
...seemed to me that it was the duty of those who remained at home to exert themselves in their feeble or feeble-minded way in an effort to solve one of the many problems that will confront them after the war; but in all this seeming I was wrong,--Mr. Prosser says...