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as some of us look at it, does Dot meet the requirements of the situation. It will not 
do, it seems to me, to allow this matter to rest at the present stage. 
There must be some accommodation between the work of the colleges and the 
wishes of the War Department. We believe that such an accommodation can be 
reached by proper conference. These orders of the War Department have been 
drawn up without consultation with us, and I must say that they are impossible of 
execution by our institutions as at present organized. We can not carry out those 
orders as thoroughly as we would like to do, and the matter rests upon our consciences. 
There is another matter I should like to refer to, that is the attitude of the War 
Department toward this whole matter in the colleges. They send an officer and 
order him to do certain things; then they drop the whole business and expect us to 
carry it out. Now, no military post could be carried on in that way. We need a 
great deal more than they give us. If the Department expects to train young 
officers in our colleges and to train the material for a citizen soldiery, it should sup- 
ply us with a great many more things than we now receive from the Department. 
We want armories, we want furniture, we want equipment; we want to have another 
noncommissioned officer, at least; and the Department ought t i supply uniforms for 
our young men. The young men in the land-grant colleges are ready to give up a 
considerable part of their time in order to take this instruction, and it is proper that 
the War Department should do something more for them than at present. 
I concur mostly heartily in the motion that the committee be continued, and I 
would like to add the suggestion that the committee try to secure proper equipments 
and the appointment of some officer to help carry out this work. 
E. A. Bkyan. It seems to me apparent from the remarks which have been made here 
that General Orders No. 94 is impossible of execution, but beyond that, there is the fact 
that the Department has no right in any sense whatever to issue orders to the land- 
grant colleges. While in form it is not the issue of such an order, it in reality amounts 
to that. The Department has of course the right to issue an order to an officer of 
tlie Army. The Department details an officer for the carrying out of the order, and 
this amounts simply to the issue of an order direct to an institution over which the 
Department has no direct control and should assume no such control. We are 
expected t>> carry out a system of tilings which can not be carried out. This, I sub- 
mit, ought to be made clear by the committee to the War Department — that, if this 
system is to be made a successful part of the military education of the country, much 
more should be done in order to make it successful. In all these forty years there 
has been only one year in which the true position of these institutions has been rec- 
ognized; that was the year 1898, when President McKinley made it possible for some 
of the graduates of these institutions to pass an examination for the Regular Army. 
I feel confident that it will meet with the approval of gentlemen here when I say that 
something further should be done either to abolish this system or to make it worthy 
of the colleges and of the nation. 
G. T. Winston, of N< >rth Carolina. I desire t< > express my accord with the sentiment 
which I know exists in tins association in favor of carrying on the military instruc- 
tion required by the Government in the order which has been referred to to as large 
an extent as it is possible to do s<>. 
I think it clear that when the act under which these institutions were organized 
prescribed certain studies to be pursued and then specifically said" "including mili- 
tary instruction," the act intended that, whatever else might be omitted, military 
instruction should not be. I will not take time in dwelling upon that point; I 
simply remark that the act singles out military instruction as especially to be 
included in the curriculum of these institutions. I think it will be conce<led that 
the National Government in that act intended that an important part of the work of 
these colleges should be the training of a select body of young men along military 
lines, so that if circumstances should demand it they might serve their country as 
