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should visit our campus during the drill hour you would see 

 the men divided up into squads and companies, not under 

 command of a paid teacher, but under command of their 

 fellow-students of the upper classes, and this training gives 

 men confidence in themselves, the ability to command and 

 manage others, which is of almost priceless value. 



Secretary Sessions. It strikes me that Governor Hoard 

 remem])ers, just as I reliiembcr in my own experience, some- 

 thing like this. After being in the service som^i time and 

 l)eiiig at grand review, I was under the command of an ofii- 

 cer, a brave man, an educated man in every respect except 

 that of military science, and wanting to wheel his comjwiny, 

 he could not remember the term to use, so he said, " Haw 

 around here, boys. You know what I mean." 



Ex-Governor Hoard. Not only that, Mr. Secretary, but 

 the lack of that knowledge which the professor has men- 

 tioned resulted in terrible consequences to the lives of the 

 men, not only in the army of the North but also in that of 

 the South. It cost an enormous outlay and w^aste of life to 

 get right, to get into a condition of effectiveness and dis- 

 cipline in the mobilization of the forces on either side. And 

 what was lacking? Simply military intelligence. I remem- 

 l)er that it cost my regiment, the Fourth Wisconsin, one of 

 the earliest sent out, months of time and a large amount of 

 consequent sickness and death before our ofiicers had intelli- 

 o'ence enough to know how to care for the lives of their 

 men. 



Professor Brooks. One other thought occurs to me that 

 I want to present right here. We shall not have to wait 

 until we have another war to appreciate the value of these 

 graduates of agricultural colleges. They are making them- 

 selves felt to-day wherever they are, in numerous instances 

 as officers of the militia, so that the influence of the college 

 is radiating out in all directions even to-day, and the effect 

 of this military training is more marked than was previously 

 anticipated. 



Professor Mills. I was talking with a father last evening 

 whose son was at the Agricultural College, ])ut was obliged 

 to leave after one year, and the father said to me, referring 

 to this very thing, " The advantage which my boy received 



