SCHOOL CADET CORPS.
Sir,—As any scheme for military training m this Dominion will '.necessarily hingo on the education of , our boys in schools, may I. suggest that, if possiblo, those school and college corps should >not bo officered by their own teacbors or any person engag6d in school discipline? The boys have enough of their toachcrs in tho class-rooms, and the modo of corrcction thorein is opposed i to all military law. and practice. . As an instance: I was inspecting a cadot corps, where the captain commanding was also the principal. 1 had occasion to correct, suavitor in modo, a youth for a trifling error, when tho C.0., in full uniform, immediately boxed the delinquent's cars. The parado was dismissed, when I had to point out to tho officer the heinous military offence committed by his assaulting a boy "under arms." "Thon I will resign at once; for I cannot, by putting on uniform, dismiss from my mind my indoor ouatom." And ho did.—l am, etc. ' J. T. MARSHALL.
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 496, 1 May 1909, Page 14
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169SCHOOL CADET CORPS. Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 496, 1 May 1909, Page 14
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