New Britain herald., 1915-10-23
RESIDENT HADLEY,s IDEA.

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 al report made nublic yesterday
 He'd much attention to the sum
 military training camps for col
 students establisfied a three sum
 ago by the War Department.
 has been vitally interested in
 camps because many of her stu-
 s have spent the allotted five
 s each summer since their in
 ration under the tutelage of Ned States army officers It is
 efore assumed thats President
 ey has given the subject great #ght and knows whereof he speaks
 IS in sympathy with the movement #even favors having the work done
 nmmer camps counted as con-
 htiop toward the credits needed Ia bachelors degree. President
 ley however, suggests this mili- < training should not be made com- #ory and that whatever work is
 in the summer be supplemented Additional instruction given during
 winter by army officers. 5
 his is the first suggestion along
 e lines and should call. for much
 lssion among educators during
 looming scholastic year. If any
 of support is given the idea ad- led by President Hadley,-count-
 the summer military work as part
 he regular college curriculum,-
 college men throughout the coun- 4are encouraged to take up mili~ H training during part of their aner vacations it would not be < before a competent corps of re- He officers would be esta blished for United States army. There is Reason why college men could not bte five weeks each summer dur their four years stay at school, at least four hours of their extra each week during the winter ion in gathering valuable mili- training from instructors sent from West Point, or from any |y post in the country. As Presi- Hadley points out, the work in these summer camps is not
 kind that many people suppose. 5 serious effort on the part of liar army officers to implant upon minds of educated men the value tactics. There is no such g as the machine like drill at- lant upon learning the manual of s, or the marching of the goose i. or the niceties of dress parade, my part of the ball room side of tary service. Neither is the work prised of tedious hours spent over wing boards mapping out plans against an enemy hidden ind brick wall On the contrary, courses offered in these summer IDS are highly beneficial to the elopment of the intellects of any I who wishes to take the work ously and devote his time to think
 rather than to idlencss. While deploring any suggestion might advocate setting up com sorry military training in our erican colleges, President Hadley heartily in favor of the students ng to the work voluntarily for this son: It gives a training in the ;e of public obligation. Therein sident Hadley has struck the key } of the whole situation. We, as ation, are fast forgetting the old lciple of sociology that the indi- lal must be sacrificed for society. have taken the stand that society ;t be sacrificed for the individual. are laboring under the belief that government should do everything us, that we should not concern ye1ves in the least with the govern it's welfare. And to that end ire resting secure in the belief that few men Uncle Sam has assembled er the title standing army will
 to our defense if any other nation atens to deyastate our land. The
 has come when the public con- ice should be awakened, and the ,ge men are the ones to bring
 about. President Hadley has right idea in extending a helping d to those who are big enough to ifice five weeks of their summer ltion preparing themselves for a onal emergency