Connecticut western news. [volume] (Salisbury, Litchfield Co., Conn.) 1871-1970, 1918-12-05
SCHOOL NOTES

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Miss Katherine Sedgwick, a Falls
Village student, spent the Thanks
giving recess with relatives in Tor
rington.
Miss Marion Werner, Of Water
bury, a graduate of class 1918, spent
the weekend in town, guest of
Madeline Coe.
The regular Teachers meeting for
December was held Tuesday of this
week.
The leading question among the
students has been "What did you
get"-applied to reports which went
out last Wednesday.
The dolls completed for Red
Cross work by the Primary grade,
are attractive enough to please
Santa Clause himself.
Elizabeth Lee, a member of the
sophomore class, is i'll with Influenza,
Until further notice the District
Nurse will be at the school building,
each school day from 10000
each afternoon. Teachers have been
asked to report any cases which
need attention.
Mr.. c. D. V. Barnes, an active
IL amber Of the State Guard, made
fierce attack upon the Turks"
Thursday, November IS, which re-
suited in the capture CT one Turk,
and breast-bone broken.
The following extract from a let
ter written by Malcolm Adam under
date of Dec. l, 1918, explains the
attitude of the colleges in regard to
the S. A. T. c.
GAS you may know the S. A. T. c.
has taken every minute of our time
since we've been here and for that
reason it is to be demobilized.
President Lowell of Harvard has,
for two months, tried to have the
| War Dept. release us from so much
military work but inasmuch as the
request was unheeded, the stand
ards of Harvard started to go down
and had reached such a position that
the college authorities went to Wash
| ington to see about it. 1t was de-
cided that a strictly military organi-
zation cold not exist if the college
! standards were to be preserved.
! The latter were demanded and in the
end were victorious. In view of this
fact it was advisable to return as
many college students as possible
, after Christmas, so, the immediate
rehabilitation was recommended.
The military life here has, in my
opinion, been very harsh in many
respects. Inasmuch as the military
work was to aid the college as much
as possible various forms of punish
, ment were melted out even to we'll
meaning men. If one, land happily
E / am not), was to "cut" class in or
| der to prepare for another, a few
! hours of fatigue were given. If a
Inon-commissioned officer did not live
up to the regular college course
. standard, he was denoted. If on
$ Saturday morning, at inspection" a
v fellows rifle was found to be, in
Q the laest, dusty, he was given
r fatigue and for every count against
\ him at inspection he was given two
hours of fatigue, cleaning up bar
6 racks, doing Kitchen Police, ETC.
:. And so on, no matter how trivial an
offense it was dealt with severely.
In this way, a great deal of the
] students time was taken from his
f books, and, as the military authori-
r ties refused to better matters q
crisis resulted and the colleges
Il throughout the whole United States
won in the end.
@ In all the time I've been here l am
: glad to state that have only had to
Il work off five hours of fatigue, but
that was sufficient. A word to the
= wise.
: By the end of this term we will
have completed nearly a full years
s work that is we will have completed
f the ordinary nine months course in
two and a half months. The object
! of all this unusual work was, to de.
:. termine who should be sent to Off.
GERS Training camps. Unfortunately
o | was considered too young to &c
:. when my turn came or / would now
G be in such a camp.
It A drafted man was, surely much
better off than we were, in every in.
n stance except the barracks. He
o. was not compelled to study, or tt
n work moro than half the day, o. tc
o maintain the standards of an Off
d GERS Training School; and many
others could be mentioned.
II Although the work has been hare
s j. has rToven . val 1able cXoerienc:
2 which none of us shall ever forget.