Norwich bulletin., 1915-04-28

of actual war, we could thus gain 1900 officers per year,
 Az another source of officers aeRs eral Weed spoke of the college summer camps, where the college heys Whe ge ta them get i've weeks of geed hard work under the best officers we have. Yale has done particularly well iR these summer camps. In tive such courses for the sumHae# the average college man can he turned out a pretty seed volunteer officer. In such 8 way we eeald tuFR cut from s,666 te 4,op5 officers per year.
 Another eheer as the baaaueteFs #ese | to their feet was given for General Weed as he concluded:
 FFefesssF Raesn. fFefesgeF Bacon was introduced by ! feastHaasteF LeaveRs as one of falf= | fly well known and highly respected | in Norwich and hardly needing an in= | tfeduetien since Norwich lays claim | ta him anyway.
 PFefesseT BaeeH expressed apBFeeia= 1 ton of what General Wood had tatq the Yale men aieag military lines and referred te his ewR knowledge of the Swiss military training, which he knew | of through being in Switzerland from 1s7a to 1874. It is & seheFihg and con-
 serving system which we need ifl euf ! own lawless land. If carried cut in the right spirit. it can be a great blessing te our country, the speaker said. Yet with Billy Sunday. Professor Bacon
 said he believed that we should pre=
 pare for peace and, with Billy Sunday, he also believed that we should be
 pretty likely te got what we prepare l for. Yet we should not remain abse- | lutely defenseless and inviting attack
 as China Is among the nations.
 Taking as his text the motto on tho
 God, for Country and for Yale, Pro-
 fessor Bacon spoke upon the possi- bllitles that make for peace among the members of a republic of men of
 letters. These are tho men who lead the thought of the country.
 He asked the question as to what the great dangers of the nation are, | and said we had the reputation as 0
 nation most ready to provoke quar- rel and lacking in courtesy In our dip lomatic relations. He indicated that this Is an outcome of "shirts1eeve di- plomacy," and called upon men of let ters and men of college training to combat this spirit. Let us be pre-
 pared for war, but let the thinking
 men combat this provocative, comba-
 tative and domincering spirit which we
 have seen to be the ruin of one of the
 most progressive countries of modern
 times.
 !, Professor Bacon was also given the
 speech.
 Vale in China. When MT. Wilder was introduced by Postmaster I1eavens, he was likewise greeted with the long Yale cheer. He had his hearers laughing heartily as } he spoke in @ witty way of renewing associations at New Haven and in his 2 visits upon Yale men in different parts of the country, and then he went or to speak of what was being done ir China at Chang Sha, the capital o1 the province of Human, where he Saio Yale in China was furnishing the l higher education for that province Sixteen Yale graduates have gone out
 to this Chinese work, two at their owr expense, and there are now four young men in this country who have had ! their preliminary work in China. anC 7 when they go back there will be nc educational institution with such 6 staff in China. We are plantin- a new Yale in China. We are doing large ? things, for we have gone out to opeT up the whole interior of China These
 people give us a warm welcome, ant the homes we set up are models fol
 their instruction and they are intense. : ly interested.
 More cheers for MT. Wilbur witt cheers for the toastmaster and the of , fcers and the singing of Bright Col lege Years concluded the banquet a
 shortly after II o'clock.
 Secretary Haskell was in genera r charge of the arrangements for thu l evening, with J. Ralph Howe, Gros 3 venor Ely, Philip Johnson and Le'
 Roy Robbins assisting.
 s After the banquet General Wood wa. 2 entertained at MT. Haskelps home un 6 til 1t was time for him to leave b, = automobile to take the 3.30 mornin, l train at New London for Boston. HI Q Twas taken to New London by Philil Johnson.