Fork Union Military Academy - Skirmisher Yearbook (Fork Union, VA)

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VIRGINIA SCHOOLS WELCOME THE NATION r ROM the days when the Father of His Country gave a block of stock to Liberty Hall Academy and the Author of the Declaration of Independence founded a university, Virginia always has been a leader in cultural education. Where is a military school such a challange to a boy as in the land of Yorktown and Appomattox, the land of the Valley Campaign, New Market and Winchester, Fredericksburg and the Wilderness? Where is there a sweeter culture than among the gentlewomen of Virginia typified in the charming atmosphere of our schools for women? Where are the souls of boys and girls so stirred as among Virginia's thousand national shrines, clustered in the Old Dominion's fair Tide- water, her magnificent Valley, and her unrivaled mountains? Hundreds of thousands of Americans are at the forefront in every field of achievement because in Virginia they found that splendid education whiclydevelops mind, soul, and body and makes men great and women noble. The schools are the pride of the Old Dominion, rich in their tradi- tions, honored by their alumni, and possessed of student bodies recruited from the best holmes in America. V WILLIAM JOSEPH SHOWALTER , Late Chief, Division of Research, i National Geographic Magazine. E91

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DR. FRANK CRANE Said: The three Aims of education, are first, 'DISCIPLINE'g second, 'HEALTH'g and lthird, 'WORK.' I am a good deal of a pacifist of the worst kind, but I think THE ARMY HAS GOT THE ONE THING THE WORLD NEEDS. It is that thing called DISCIPLINE, and if we can get it into our whole population We are going to do good. These Military Schools are good. The boys that come out of them are the center of power all through the world. Whoever knows how to stand straight on his feet, and how to take care of himself, is a center of power among his fellows. PRESIDENT JOHN R. SAMPEY Speaking to a group of Chinamen in the University of Shanghai. This military drill you have on your campus, I do not object to it as a Christian man. I had three years in a cadet corps myself, and it has done me good, all my life. MILITAIQISM vs. MILITARY DISCIPLINE QU Militarism is intensive training in preparation for war. It is animated by an imperialistic spirit with the purpose at heart to use military force for national gain or aggrandizement. It has no par- ticular desire for peace and often is indifferent to the horrible slaughter and after-consequences of war. The embodiment of militarism has revealed itself in such men as the Caesars. Q25 Military training in a Christian school is using the magnificent discipline of militiary life without inculcating any of the evils or spirit of militarism. oh the other hand in a Christian school like Fork Union Military Academy we not only get all the good there is in military training but teach our boys to hate war and we repudiate in their discipline and training every military feature that characterizes the spirit of militarism. Militarism is brutal while military training makes a bigger and better man, and those who have taken military training in school testify to this fact. No military Christian school has ever advocated war. llndeed the military student in the Christian school would be one of the first to plead for a peaceful settlement of an international or national difficulty. I J. J. W. Illl