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Show WHY COLLEGE MEN j FAILED AT THE CAMP ' "Mentally and Physically Slouchy," j Says Adjutant General H. P. j McCain in Letter. I BERKELEY, Cal., Sopt. 8. Man.v of ; the colleen men that attended the first , reserve officers' training camp at the ! Presidio here were "mentally and j ! physically slouchv," and this prevent-! ed their obtaining commissions, accord- ; iri to a letter from Adjutant General , Henry P. McCain at Washington. T). ' C, received today by President Ben- ; jamin Lie Wheeler of the University I of California. The lettpr further said that many of thpse eoilrtre men had been spoiled because be-cause they had not been under proper : discipline, that they could not stand ; up straight aud could not give military : commands. "School education of todav is producing pro-ducing a generation of .jellyfish," was the comment made on the letter by M. C Flaherty, associate professor of f orensics. |