instructors. While this provision may possess some value as recognizing a principle, there is reason to fear that it will fail of that success which its sponsors expect for it. This failure will come from the presence in the regularly-enlisted army of the professional soldier spirit, which, by reason of the admittedly inferior character of most of our army-post schools, and the antagonism in the breast of the common soldier toward "uplift work" in his behalf, will balk these well-meant efforts. The army plan proposed will place in segregated military units a very large number of men who will have gone into the army for the settled purpose of securing for themselves the advantages of training, who will be paid in education rather than in money, among whom there will be no exceptions in the matter of taking the training, and whose zeal for education will not be dampened by the cynical attitude of older soldiers, to whom the whole matter of study will be one of scoffing and ridicule. OF THE ACADEMY OF POLITICAL SCIENCE The Proceedings are issued by the Academy as a record o its activities and as a means of giving detailed treatment to specia subjects of importance. Each volume consists of four numbers published in January, April, July and October. Two numbers giv in full the papers read at the meetings of the Academy, togethe with the discussions, and the addresses at the dinner meetings, The numbers thus far issued are as follows: No. 4. Vol. II, No. 1. The Reform of the Criminal Law and Procedure. Vol. IV, No. 1. No. 2. Banking and Currency in the United States. Essays on Banking Reform in the United States Part I. No. 2. The Revision of the State Constitution. Part II No. 3. No. 4. The Government of the City of New York. Vol. VI, No. 1. Communications in reference to the Proceedings should be addressed to Henry Raymond Mussey, Editor of the Pro ceedings of the Academy of Political Science, Kent Hall, Colum bia University. Subscriptions should be forwarded and all busi ness communications addressed to the Secretary of the Academy of Political Science, Kent Hall, Columbia University. Mem bers of the Academy receive the Proceedings without further pay ment. |