Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-04-23
COLLEGE STUDENTS.
PREPARE FOR WAR
President Of Universities De-
handing Preparedness Meas
ures of Highest Sort.
TO OFFER REGULAR COURSES
Active and Enthusiastic Groups
at Harvard and Yale Take
Up Work.
TO OFFER REGULAR COURSES
Especial to The rimcs-pisnatch.

lSpec!al TO The Times Disnatch
CAMBRIDGE. MASS. April 2o.-In
! certain American colleges. called land
grant COLLEGES" which arc supported in
part by the United states government.
! a caricature OF military training has
been compulSory for many years
Tho students drill listlcssly once a
week sleep through drcary military
lectures on which they do not have to
take notes or pass examinations and
forget all the stray bits OF martial
, knowledge that happen TO catch in their
| brains rs soon as possible.
The system has not turned out on
GERS 1T has not even produced soldiers.
| Army officers and college educators
alike have come to sec that It's wrop,.
| Presidents or universities throughout
| the country to-day are almost asa
unit in dccryinE the old type uf com
rulsory drill. and demanding prepared
ness measures of a higher sort
II ever tho United states has to rails.
an army OF millions il will h. hard
pressed FOR officers. An army oficsr
in addition to drill. has TO know lots
ri theory and hook learning" It /,
to hc expected, and the c1pcrience Of
the past has shown. that thes. ON
GERS will be drawn from the better .du-
Gated class, the mon who hav. had thu
advantage Of intellectual training
which enables them to grasp ahstrac-
tons quicker than tho ordinary COM
mon school product
Many American colleges will there.
fore offer regular courses OF military
study, counting as part Of the work for
| q dcIrrc, to undergraduates next falt
AS 10 drill and actual field expert
| cnce. the record OF the summer train
ing camps shows that the young man
can get more Of this in week OF In
tensirc training. hevotinS his time to
nothing else, than in tenfold the tins
spread over months In homeopathic
doses OF an hour each.
EDuCATOus GIVE MuCu
| THOUGHT TO SURJECr
Educators have thought and written
great deal on this subject in the last
/ two years. President Arthur T. Had
ley. OF Yale, made q long and careful
report 10 the university on the subject.
Educational magazines have discussed
| It, Tho general conclusion is: Intel
lectuai side OF soldering i'm regular
college courses; field work in summer
camps.
H"i for tho students who are really
taking deep interest in military
things and do nor regard II az Dor.
F. military drill in college is encouraged.
The new Harvard rcsimcnt. which
Archie Roosevelt, son of the ey-Pr.s;
dent, did much to organize is far from
the lackadaisical compulsory military
orSanization which graduates OF land
grant colleges look back upon with
contempt and disgust
Each Of tho 1850 men in the re<I
ment has signed an agreement which
reads, i'm part:
! III is understood that II absent
hiNSclf from any OF tho drills or Other
instruction without an excuse acccpta
ole 10 the disciplinary committee nv
name i"r the first offcnsc will he posted
! u" me hn'lctin board of tho regiment.
an" Tor the second oTcnse will he
dropped from the rolls OF the re-i
"'on' an" my name shall he published
IN tho Crimson. the college paper"
discipline is strictly enforced with
out regard to the social standing or
the college soldier and pcnaltics ~.
severe. Captain Constant Cortiier
United states Army. has been dir.c,c5
ny General Leonard Wood To drill III.
regiment. The course of instruction &c
the same As that given To men who
enter tho regular army.
SERIES or LECTURES
GIVEN ny EXrERTS
The regiment drills inside the base
ball cage in cold or wet vcatb.r.
otherwise in the college grounds or,
through the parkway Eut besides IN.
drills Captain Corder and his assist.
ants give series of lecture. or dis.
cipiine. drill administrative organize,
''on' supply services. military hysten.
ana MINOR tactics. including orders and
"'P problems. tactical talks on the
ihtcrfeiation and functions of cayalry
"'tierN' infantry. engineers signal
ling. sanitary troops trains and cam,
! marches Later work on field fortih-
cations and demolition will be added.
IN contrast TO National Guard prac-
tice. officers will not be elected. They
VIII be appointed by Captain Cordier.
not according to popularity. but for
their efficiency. Wells Blanchard, man.
aSer OF last years football team. is
one OF the most active men in organ
i|ins The regiment. At the present
t'me X. :. l.und is the leader OF IN.
students in the regiment II, c. Yin.
Japanese student, has joined the or
'''h' and is drilling industri-
ously.
More than 100 students have Joined
flying corps to he organized for the.
regiment by Frazier Curtis: who re-
Gently returned from the battle fields
OF france Several acroplanes will be
aNaiiable Tor experimental purposes
~ Yale University the students in-
'eres'eh In army. work have taken UP
.he more technical arm OF arnlIery.
mere arc iSS men in the Yale hat.
talon, which includes four batteries
y. T.. {. and -. In addition, there IL
inc Yale Aero Corps. which will soon
DC increased from twenty 10 forty