The War Department's plan for holding students at American colleges by encouraging them to enlist at eighteen in cadet corps which will be part of the regular army will have advantages from a military point of view and disadvantages from the college side. It has been found at Princeton that the undergraduates were extremely restless, and that they were not satisfied to serve in Reserve Officers' Training Corps because that gave them no military credit in the eyes of the Government. Hence the lure of the Aviation Corps or the Navy or the ranks of the army. In so far as the new plan will hold these youths within collegiate walls, it is a step forward; in so far as it turns all our colleges into military academies, it is regrettable, however inevitable it may be. As all men are probably now to be drafted on reaching twenty-one, the Government will be taking time by the forelock. We hope, however, that the plan will stop there and not be carried into the high and grammar schools. In this connection it is interesting to note that the British Government, despite the strain upon it, has definitely and finally refused to allow military training in its schools. Replying to a deputation of the Miners' Federation of Great Britain, the President of the Board of Education declared that he was with them in their position, and had "no intention of allowing anything in the nature of military training in the schools." --New York Evening Post.