service in their generation; but these times demand new measures and new men.  It is conceded that we shall probably be for many years a military nation.  At least a generation of vigilance shall be the price of our liberty.  And even of peace we can have no stronger assurance than a wise and wieldy readiness for war.  Now the education of our unwarlike days is not adequate to the emergencies of this martial hour.  We must be seasoned with something stronger than Attic salt, or we shall be cast out and trodden under foot of men.  True, all education is worthy.  Everything that exercises the mind fits it for its work; but professional education is indispensable to professional men.  And the profession, par excellence, of every man of this generation is war.  Country overrides all personal considerations.  Lawyer, minister, what not, a man’s first duty is the salvation of his country.  When she calls, he must go; and before she calls, let him, if possible, prepare himself to serve her in the best manner.  As things are now, college-boys are scarcely better than cow-boys for the army.  Their costly education runs greatly to waste.  It gives them no direct advantage over the clod who stumbles against a trisyllable.  So far as it makes them better men, of course they are better soldiers; but for all of military education which their college gives them, they are fit only for privates, whose sole duty is to obey.  They know nothing of military drill or tactics or strategy.  The State cannot afford this waste.  She cannot afford to lose the fruits of mental toil and discipline.  She needs trained mind even more than trained muscle.  It is harder to find brains than to find hands.  The average mental endowment may be no higher in college than out; but granting it to be as high, the culture which it receives gives it immense advantage.  The fruits of that culture, readiness, resources, comprehensiveness, should all be held in the service of the State.  Military knowledge and practice should be imparted and enforced to utilize ability, and make it the instrument, not only of personal, but of national welfare.  That education which gives men the advantage over others in the race of life should be so directed as to convey that advantage to country, when she stands in need.  Every college might and should be made a nursery of athletes in mind and body, clear-eyed, stout-hearted, strong-limbed, cool-brained,—­a nursery of soldiers, quick, self-possessed, brave and cautious and wary, ready in invention, skilful to command men and evolve from a mob an army,—­a nursery of gentlemen, reminiscent of no lawless revels, midnight orgies, brutal outrages, launching out already attainted into an attainting world, but with many a memory of adventure, wild, it may be, and not over-wise, yet pure as a breeze from the hills,—­banded and sworn