The Military Schools of the Pacific Coast [pp. 465-481]

SKIRMISH FIRING, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA CADET CORPS.
THE MILITARY SCHOOLS OF THE
PACIFIC COAST
TO WHICH ARMY OFFICERS ARE DETAILED
BY LIEUTENANT HAMILTON, UNITED STATES ARMY
nN KNOWLEDGE there is
power, is an old saw that
must be considerably re vised in these utilitarian
i days, when applied to our
young men and women.
Undoubtedly the greatest
factor of individual great ness, is knowledge and
wisdom,- that is, know ledge of art, science, law,
and religion, and wisdom
5 ma, as to how best apply such
knowledge. But with the
youth of today, to pro duce great and lasting
ax " X conditions, there must be
X / placed restraining influ ences on the use of know ledge. He is practically
self-taught, and where two or three generations ago, the young man required
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many years of study to attain eminence,
he now jumps and reaches it with a
single bound from boyhood to manhood,
at a time of life when he was formerly
considered to be still in leading strlngs.
Too often, alas! his great and easily
learned knowledge makes him cynical,
shiftless, lawless, and irreverent. His
ideas of duty, of respect and obedience
to old age, are too often a bar to what
he calls his independence and liberty.
As he reaches man's estate with this
feeling, liberty is distorted by him into
license, and independence into lawlessness. This is not his fault, but rather
the fault of the age, and the consequent
necessity he feels under of being, or
seeming to be, a little more than his
fellows, as well as to the fewer bonds
and restraining influences thrown around
him in his home.
To attain the best and highest types of