SUMMER MILITARY CAMPS

The editor of the MAGAZINE has been requested by President H. S. Drinker of Lehigh University, Secretary of the Advisory Committee of University Presidents on Summer Military Instruction Camps to give publicity to the following report, for the benefit and information of students who may care to attend any of the camps next summer. President Drinker will be glad to furnish further information in regard to these camps to any one sufficiently interested to write him.

"Report of the Advisory Committee of University Presidents on the Summer Military Instruction Camps for Students:

"November 17, 1915

"These camps have now been in operation for three successive summers. In their growth and admirable management during the past two summers of 1914 and 1915, they have more than fulfilled the expectations of those endorsing them, based on the first year's experience in the summer of 1913. The camps of 1913 and 1914 were held before the breaking out of the great war abroad, which has brought into greater prominence than before their value to the nation.

"We repeat the hearty endorsement given in our reports on the Camps held in 1913 and 1914. This year they were visited by a number of the members of our committee, and the committee as a whole has given attention and thought to their educational usefulness in the summer season.

"The students attending are under careful oversight. The excellence of food, sanitation, and medical care, has been well maintained. The students have an ideal five weeks' outing, pleasurable and beneficial to them; and the instruction, drill, cavalry exercises, field manoeuvres, field surveying and field work generally, give them in the continuous five weeks' training, an insight into military matters. They are, in addition to this regular work, given time for recreation and rest.

"We commend the camps to the authorities and students of the Universities and Colleges of the country. We believe that the training and instruction which the students attending receive not only emphasize the dangers and losses of wars lightly and unpreparedly entered into, but we also believe that the training given is excellent, and a great benefit, mental and physical, to the students attending.

"President John G. Hibben, Chairman, Princeton University.

"President A. Lawrence Lowell, Harvard University.

"President Arthur Twining Hadley, Yale University.

"President John H. Finley, University of the State of New York and Commissioner of Education.

"President H. B. Hutchins, University of Michigan.

"President George H. Denny, University of Alabama.

"Superintendent E. W. Nichols, Virginia Military Institute.

"President Benjamin Ide Wheeler, University of California.

"President J. G. Schurman, Cornell University.

"President Edmund J. James, University of Illinois.

"Chancellor J. H. Kirkland, Vanderbilt University.

"President A. C. Humphreys, Stevens Institute of Technology.

"President H. A. Garfield, Williams College.

"President Henry Sturgis Drinker, Secretary, Lehigh University.