Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1916-04-23
COLLEGE MEN 0F ]. 5. BEGIN ID
 STUDY FOR WAR Many of Large Institutions Will Offer Regular
 Courses. HARVARD STUDENTS FORM A REGIMENT Archie Roosevelt Takes Leading Part in Organization of l,0iO Men 10 Prepare Service in Defense
 of Country.

Cambridge, Mass, April 22.-In cer- tain American colleges, called "land grant colleges" which are supported in part by the United States govern ment, caricatuye of military train ing has been compulsory for many years.
 The students drill listlessly once a week, sleep through dreary military , lectures on which they do no nave to l,ake notes CT pass examinations, and forget all the stray bits of material knowledge that happen to catch in their brains as soon as nossible.
 The system has not turned out of ficers, it has not even produced sol djers. Army officers and college edu- cators alike have come to see that it is wrong
 Presidents of universities through out the country today are almos. as unit in decrying the old type of compulsory drill and demanding pre- paredness measures of a higher sort.
 If ever the United States has 10 ] raise an army Of millions, it will be 1 hard rsssed for officers. An army officer in addition to drill, has to know lot of theory and "book learn ing" It is to be expected, and the experience of the past has shown, that these officers will be drawn from the better educated class, the men who have had the advantage of intel lectual training which enables them l to grasp distractions quicker than the ordinary common school product.
 Many American colleges will there for offer regular courses of military study, counting as part Of the work
 for a degree, to undergraduates next fall.
 As to drill and actual field expert
 ence, the reco.d of simmer training
 camps shows that the young men
 tensive training, devoting his time to
 nothing else, than in tenfold the time
 spread over months in homeopathic
 doses of an hour each. Educators have thought and written grea- deal on this subject i'll the
 last two years. President Arthur T Hadley of Yale made long and care . full report to the university on the subject. Educational magazines have discussed it. Tho general conclusion
 is: Intellectual side of soldering in , regular college courses; field work in summer camps.
 But for the students who are real , ly taking a deep interest in military things and do not regard it as bore military drill in college is encouraged Harvard Men Organize. The new Harvard regiment which , Archie Roosevelt, son of the ex-presi- , i>dent. did much to organize, is far from the lackadaisioal compulsory militar, organization which graduates of lanj grant colleges look back upon witf , contempt and disgust.
 q Each of the 1,05O men in the regi ment has signed an agreement which z reads. in part:
 Tt is understood that if I absen myself from any of the drills or other ' ' instruction without all excuse ac , ceptable to the disciplinary commit tee my name for the first offense vii ' be posted on the bulletin board of tho U regiment and for the second offense I will be dropped from the rolls O. z he regiment and my name shall bt !, pUtlishsd d in the Crimson the college ' paper)"
 V Discipline is strictly enforced with \ out regard to the social standing O tfe college soldier. ano penalties arr
 severe, Captain Constant Cordier, Y ]. s A., has been directed by Genera