Show 4 TUE obest 7 P 7 WRITERS I 1 ask g a 3 I 1 ta HOSTILITY TO MILITARY DRILL military instruction it may bo be asserted is a far from popular in the great colleges to abich students nock flock foe or in in the humanities the arts and sciences scle aces it la is not what they flock there fr foe and even though the state slate provide free truit fruition ion for its sons the latter ater ilk alko tree free americans claim they should get it without reciprocal sarv lee on their part parl it Is not a new trait the modern yankee lad Is no worse than was his great grandfather thomas jefferson our mightiest exponent of the doctrine of free speech and the equality ot of man when ho he sought to curb the exuberance of the student body of 0 the university he had founded within the shadow of his own monticello Montt cello was scandal scandalized to find the youth of virginia possessed of ideas of 0 their own and overwhelming powers of expression tho the recent demonstration against the president of the university of a remarkably neighboring state was a zephyr in comparison with the hurricane of hisses that greeted the great leader of american democracy there was such huoh a thing then as too much freedom of speech and manner even in a virginia college and a bygone century small wonder therefore that in these days when there Is tar far less of home training there should be such dislike of discipline on the part of the undergraduate body of our universities versi ties gen charles king in the lorld to today day |