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MORE than a year ago—on February 20, 1919—an article on “Education in the Army” was published in these columns in which urgent reasons were advanced for a new policy. During the intervening period, numerous contributions have been made to various newspapers and reviews on the same subject, and book has succeeded book animadverting on the educational defects of the Army organisation as revealed by the war. Great disappointment will be felt that these sincere representations have so far produced no more useful result than the Memorandum on the Army Estimates of 1919–20, recently published by the War Office “in amplification of the speech of the Secretary of State in introducing the Estimates.” That speech, delivered by Mr. Churchill on February 23, was able and serious within somewhat exiguous limits, but it contributed nothing to the question of educational reform in its military aspects. We are forced, therefore, to turn to the amplifying Memorandum in the anxious hope of finding the question discussed on broad lines and in a scientific spirit. It proves to be a Mother Hubbard cupboard containing only a schoolboy essay freely embellished with mixed metaphors. Thus:
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The Universities and the Army. Nature 105, 157–158 (1920). https://doi.org/10.1038/105157a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/105157a0