Oregon State University - Beaver Yearbook (Corvallis, OR)

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Editorial Staff A A II. C. Darby As the Oregon Agricultural College hnv made rapid and substantial growth in the past few years in the matter of building , equipment, attendance. etc.. so also have those enterprises which are carried on by the student grown and developed. Debate and oratory have made rapid strides, the Athletic I'nion has multiplied it achievements, and the Christian Associations have become a vital and potent force in college. The primary object of this publication is to endeavor to show the work of these student organizations. We realize the diflienltv of adequately portraying the achievements of them, for the greater part of their work cannot lie chronicled, but must Ik seen in order to Ik umhrstood and ap-prcciated. Nevertheless, we trust that this may lead some to know that the students of our college- are not inactive, but are awake, alert, aggressive and successful. Furthermore, the desire to furnish a souvenir illustrative of the college and the students prompted as to produce this issue as it k We trust that our subscriber , as well as any others who secure this, will save and cherish this little book, not because of its merits, but Im-causc it was intended to show what tin- O. A. C. was in 1905.

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EDITORIAL STAFF

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The Military Department ft ft By .Mark V. Weatherford “In such n measure as we are prepared to enforce them, will our demands on other nations receive consideration,” are the words of Theodore Roosevelt, and perhaps no better definition of the relation of war to our modern civilization could lie framed. There has been a growing tendency, with the rapid development and progress of every department of science, to do away with the suffering and hardships of war. Scarcely a half dozen years have passed since the czar of Russia issued his famous proclamation to the powers of the world, pleading for a conference wherein an international tribunal could l»e organized, through which all difference between nations coud be peaceably settled, and the horrors of campaigns should exist only as a relic of the past. Today that crowned head sits upon the same throne, not as an advocate of universal peace, but the director of one of the bloodiest wars ever recorded in history, either ancient or modern. While it is universally admitted that the elimination of war from the records of the twentieth century would be a commendable tiling, still it has proved an iin|x«ssiliility. Our nation in the future, as it has in the past, must rely upon its constituents for the perpetuation of its principles and the protection of its rights. It is an established fact that we cannot put all our trust in a regular army. The standing army of the United States consists of about 100,000 men. At the close of the Civil War there were over 1,000,000 soldiers in the service. This is significant: that should the stars and stripes again tloat over an army engaged in active warfare, the call for volunteers will bo made and the strength of the gigantic army of the Rebellion will lie duplicated before the echo of that call has ceased resounding throughout the extent of our land. In such a case-, the war department will not lie under the strained conditions of 1861. Although the knowledge was gained by the sacrifice of thousands of lives, the conductors of that war saw that the men were eager to fight for their Hag; yet the masses of recruits were useless when not properly officered, in order that posterity should not have to en-