Education: Military Training

The nation's greatest potential group of officers-its 650,000 male college undergraduates-is troubled by a sense of wasting time. So insistent have the undergraduates' murmurs become that last week Army & Navy men and representatives of 108 colleges gathered at the University of Chicago to see what could be done.

Chicago's Daily Maroon, completing a survey of 72 colleges, reported: "The average male undergraduate is badly prepared for his inevitable life in the armed forces of his country." It cited Lieut. General Ben Lear's reply to a Chicago parent who complained that his son, a...

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