By Dr. Charles W. Eliot, president emeritus of Harvard: "The universities ought to inspire in all their students an ardent love of country and of public liberty. This seems to me the only and the sufficient, contribution which universities should make toward national defence. In the present highly developed condition of warfare on land and sea, there is only one way of providing for the national defence, namely, universal military service of the Swiss sort."

By Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, of Columbia: "It is my opinion that the specific military training of young men should be kept separate from their school and college life and should be under national supervision and control. This is the case in both France and Germany and the principle on which it rests is, in my judgement, sound."

By President Arthur T. Hadley, of Yale: "I believe that the university should be so organized as to train men who can serve as officers for the instruction of reserves in time of peace and for acting as their leaders in time of war."

By President Benjamin Ide Wheeler, of the University of California: "When it comes to choosing officers for the reserves, we Americans cannot base our choice as Europe does, on social caste or the possession of goods. We must turn to the colleges. Natural leadership of some sort there must be, and that leadership the higher education will provide."

By David Starr Jordan, chancellor of Leland Stanford University: "I do not believe that the universities have any normal relations to the military side of national defence beyond their general obligation to ascertain and make known the truth." --Boston Advertiser.