The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-11-05

studied and explained in a series of informal talks, tactical walks, and war games conducted by selected competent officers. The practical ap- plication of the above will be carried out in the field by the students them selves and also in conjunction with the regular troops, blank ammunition being used to make the exercises l more realistic. Military map making and road sketehing will be explained, and opportunities for practical work in same offered to those who desire 1t.
 'Fhe handling and working of the rifle and its proper use will be taught and put into practical use by means 1 of gallery Cor sub-calibre) practice and, if practicable, actual firing with the service rifle and ammunition on the target range. To those students
 making the necessary qualifications over the prescribed course, the Ma tiona1 Rifle Association of America will give their prescribed markham ship badges, and also offer a trophy
 to be competed for by teams repre- l senting the different educational insti-
 tutions. Physical drill, marching,
 camping, tent pitching, making and
 breaking camp, loading and unloading
 wagons, camp expedients, field cook
 ing, camp sanitation, first aid to the i injured, personal hygiene and the
 care of the person and troops in the field will be taught by practice.
 Informal talks by selected offic-
 CTS will be given on the following
 subjects: Use and duties of the differ
 ent arms and branches of the service Gnfantry, field artillery, cavalry, en-
 gineers, signal troops 8nd the medical
 corps), field fortification, including the laying out, construction and use
 of trenches; military bridge building,
 use of explosives, demolftions; the tac- tica1 organization of the military
 forces of the United States, the req
 sons therefor, and comparison with
 that of foreign armies; the supply (food and material of an army) and the problems connected herewith. the psychology of war; the true military
 history of our country-not the i1lurn- mated school book version of our few victories, but the real accounts, as taken from the official records, of our
 many defeats and the reasons there
 for; military policy, past and pres
 ent, the necessity of some sound defi-
 mite military policy and the adoption thereof, and the present scheme as worked out by the General Staff of the
 army. The camp will include a prac- tice march of several days duration, in which as nearly as possible such actual campaign conditions of march, bivouac and combat will be followed
 as the assumed situation would ex- act.
 '"This will be real military work,
 not play, and only students who come to learn are desired, a correct under standing of the principles involved be- ing considered of more importance in the short time available for instruc- ton than the exercise or movement itself; the minuiae and exact preci- sion of close order drill will only be insisted upon enough to insure disci- pIine. Extended order drill and field exercises are considered most impor- tant.
 President Drinker of Lehigh Uni verSfty, who inspected on several oc-
 casions the camp at Gettysburg last Summer, subsequently, described it as one of the finest institutions he had ever seen. He said that he found nothing to criticise and everything to commend and admire.
 t'I can think" said President Drink CT, ''of no six weeks that could be
 spent by our boys to better advan-
 tage to themselves and with better promise to our country of develop
 ment of good, manly men and gentle men. The country owes great debt
 of gratitude to the men who devised
 and put into effect this experim ent
 for the benefit of our youth, and it
 is greatly to be hoped that it may go on and be developed and enlarged to
 embrace in succeeding years as many of our young men as possible, for in i the training of our college and uni
 versity youth nothing can be more
 valuable than this hard, disciplinary
 experience in obedience and regular clean living.''
 An advisory committee formed in
 connection with the holding of these
 camps includes among it's members President Lowell of Harvard, Presi1
 dent Hibben of Princeton, President Had1ey of Yale, President Denny of
 the University of Alabama, and Presi-
 dent Drinker of Lehigh.
 The War Department is now looking
 for sites for the camps to be held
 next Summer. One of these, it is un-
 derstood. will be in New York, prob
 ably in Jefferson County; another in
 Virginia, a third in the Middle West,
 and the fourth in the Pacific Coast
 country.