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Title: The history and achievements of the Fort Scheridan officers' training camps
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Fort Sheridan Association Girton, Fred
Subjects: Fort Sheridan (Ill.). Military training camp World War, 1914-1918
Publisher: (Chicago?) : The Fort Sheridan Association
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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more than the average amount of muscular and nervous strength,endurance and fortitude, against which he may draw in times of stress. 8. With robust health and organic vigor as a basis, and with theknow^ledge that he possesses an unusual amount of muscular and nervousstrength, he must be taught how^ to preserve the former and how^ to usethe latter to the best advantage. By learning to do this he will unwit-tingly develop self-reliance and confidence, which are, after all, physicalqualities, since they give to him the courage to dare because of the con-sciousness of the ability to do. 9. Smartness, activity, alertness, and precision are all physical ex-pressions of mental activity, and as such are the powers that guide andcontrol the physical forces to the best advantage. They also make forpersonal pride and self-respect and discipline, the voluntary, intelligent,co-ordinated, and equal subordination of every individual unit, throughv/hich alone the objects of the mass can be achieved.
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212 THE FORT SHERIDAN ASSOCIATION What Major Koehler said to a member of the Reveille staff concerningFort Sheridan and other camps is also worthy of note: In my opinion, the camp measures up to all the others I have visitedin every respect, and the material found at all the training camps gives usthe assurance that we can count on a large number of capable and con-scientious officers w^ho need only experience to qualify them for the seri-ous profession for which they are training. There is so much splendid material to draw from that it must be adifficult matter for the authorities to determine, not whom they shallselect, but whom they shall drop. It has been my experience that, in thebeginning, there were a number of men who were of the opinion that thetraining was to be of the fuss and feathers variety. It is needless to saythat these young men are no longer to be found in any of the camps. When the time came for Major Koehler to leave Fort Sheridan and pro-ceed to some other office

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