Caption: Booklet - Military Training in our Land Grant Colleges (1916)
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V I i\> be relc i \ I tv ivc o'clock, n m, Thursday, February 10, igii AfiSTB U OF A D D K K S S BY DR. EDMUND J. JAMBS PRESIDENT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS BJ ORE THE COMMITTEE ON MILITARY AFFAIB ,F THE HOUSE OF RETKESENTATIV] WASHINGTON, I>. C. THURSDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 10TH, 1916 OUR LAND GRANT COLLEGES AS CENTERS OF MILITARY TRAIN'IXG. The economic, social and political interests of the Ameri< :i people are day in a condition of unstable equilibrium. Our nation is cing seriou Iang< of unknown import and extent, and it behoovt us as at no tiir. ce the outWr< k of the great Civil War to make i canvass of our preset] ituati ;, to tal stock of our n ources, and to cast if w m in the ligh uch an examination an intelligent horo ope of the future, The events I the la t year and a half ha\ I think, changed completely tlu attitud of the a \ An rican tOV rds a whole seri< of vers important pi m c meet I with our n nal development. O n e of t!: I belli be the que n of our n ional defense. I am not ; ing t o undertal ;i general dlSCU ion <>f that question on tin (><•< ai. I l, being CO! del I in C o n g n . 1 the pr< s of tin an ry, and b the - unth In- id< oi OUr American home 1 [\ lk til > no d< bt that a more adequate m< sine of national defense will 1 ftdop 1 by I in of tin trmed foi of the Republic I n not proj sing either to dr todaj the b < metl 1 n plishintf tlii ' .ulf, whether b an incr< in th< In a r m \ , a \it.dt.-n I energising of the militi I the . n a t i o n oi a new li! (I p d continental a r m I d ire to submit foi OUl rini'-idrratton fll tl tin . l\ .1 tew < fi< % Upon < nmdainental rl( lent in this whole <ju< ni \ P p;i di / prepared ofll the en lion i .» sutlu lentl) numerous h • t i-. to i »n i rly the i r m i «> • >>i tlu* nati «<
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