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The CRIMSON Prints two communications this morning on military training at Harvard--one for it, and one against it. Like prohibition, probation, protection or any other live topic, this question has given rise to two rival camps, ready to hurl epistolary missiles at each other, the CRIMSON serving as a convenient Belgium for their battles. Very little comes of such paper controversies. They are interesting as expressions of opinion, however.
It is hard to see how compulsory military education could be very successful while there are so many men in the University strongly opposed to it in practice and principle. Still the same may be said of the orals, which are not notable for their popularity but which cannot be escaped even by those who like them lest. However, it would be a task not lightly to be undertaken to round up a thousand or more rebellious young men and compel them to mark time and shoulder arms a couple of times a week.
Without going into the theoretic side of it, the CRIMSON would point out that compulsory training would strike several large practical snags.
There are men in the University who like to wear khaki, pitch tents and shoot at targets, and who would be glad to go in for military training. But such men have an outlet for their military ardor in several local militia regiments.
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