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No provision is made for armories for the land-grant colleges, and no provision for 
uniforms for the cadets. Very inadequate provision is made for instruction, so far as 
my observation goes. This line of instruction may have had a good end in view at 
the beginning, and a good end might be subserved by it under proper conditions. 
But I think there should be a modification of the existing system, and 1 should be 
very glad to receive from this committee a review of the whole question of military 
instruction so far as the land-grant colleges are concerned. Such a review will not 
be given, of course, if the committee is discharged. 
W. E. Stone, of Indiana. Mr. Chairman. 1 approve heartily the plane which seem 
to have been in the mind of the War Department. 1 am heartily in favor of military 
instruction in these colleges. But with this sympathy with the system of instruction, 
I find it impossible at our institution to conform to General Orders No. 94. I think 
that probably the same difficulty exists in most of the land-grant colleges. 
I have sought instructions from the War Department and have received only 
orders of a kind which seem to disregard the conditions in the institution. 1 do not 
understand that the War Department is authorized legally to issue orders to the land- 
grant colleges. 
It seems to me that the situation is one which is fraught with very great possibili- 
ties of friction and misunderstanding. I do not like to be placed in the position of 
disregarding the law, but I am in the position of not being able to carry out the pro- 
visions of General Orders No. 94. Under these circumstances it seems to me highly 
important — fori take it that the condition in our institution is not much different 
from that in most of the institutions — that this association should take steps to confer 
with the War Department, so as to secure a better understanding on both sides. I 
should like to see this accomplished either by the continuance of this committee or 
by the adoption of resolutions by this association, or in some way bringing to the 
attention of the War Department the fact that, no matter how much we strive to 
meet its wishes, we are unable at present to do so, because of its apparent disregard 
of the local conditions. 
E. B. Andrews, of Nebraska. It seems to me it can hardly be the proper thing Sor 
this association to permit itself to drift in this important matter. There is evidently 
a feeling on the part of all the colleges here represented that the War Department 
orders No. 94 are severe and drastic. We have been making for the last year what 
I may call an heroic effort to live up to those orders. I think the Secretary of War 
himself will say that we have done fairly well in this respect. But there is a feeling 
throughout the faculties of our colleges that the time and strength given to this work 
are too great relatively for the best interests of their institutions. Such is emphat- 
ically my feeling, although perhaps 1 have as much sympathy with the purposes 
of the order referred to as has any man in this association. I feel that it is in the 
highest degree desirable that, if the order is thought to be too drastic, an effort 
should be made to secure a modification of the order. However much the present 
Secretary of War might dislike to modify it, he would perhaps, upon proper report, 
be willing to do so. I wish the order might be put in such a shape that we could 
all cordially cooperate in putting it into successful operation, 
I therefore hope that some of these gentlemen who have spoken on the point will 
draft a resolution, to be brought before the association in the course of its sessions, to 
have the matter further attended to by the continuance, as I think would be proper, 
of the committee. This committee, which has already been in communication with 
the War Department, would probably do the work better than any new body of gen- 
tlemen that mighl be appointed. If no one else offers such a resolution to the asso- 
ciation, I propose to do it myself. 
C. W. DABNDY, of Tennessee. I fully sympathize with all that has been said on this 
subject. The committee makes a very modest report. I think the members of it have 
done everything they possibly could under the circumstances. Yet their proposition, 
