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Military Training on the Florida Campus
 "Who is the happy Warrior? Who is he
 That every man in arms should wish to be?
 It is the generous Spirit, who, when brought
 Among the tasks of real life, hath wrought
 U pon the plan that pleased his boyish thought:
 Whos high endeavors are an inward light
 That makes the path before him always bright:
 Who, with a natural instinct to discern
 What knowledge can perform, is diligent to learn;
 Abides by this resolve, and stops not there,
 But makes his moral being his prime care."
 -WnILLAM Womnswoara.
 When land-grant colleges- were first established, the gov-
ernment stipulated that military training must be provided
to the students enrolled. Consequently, when the University
of Florida was first founded, military training was introduced
as a part of its activity.
 Col. E. S. Walker, who came to the University to take
charge of military training in 1908, was one of Dr. Murphree's
closest friends. Col. Walker was the president's golfing com-
panion on many an afternoon's playing around the greens of
the Country Club. It is safe to say that each man found the
companionship of the other delightful.
 Dr. Murphree was greatly interested in military training.
He kept in close touch with CoL Walker and with the military
department of the University at all times, and did all that he
could to raise the standard of military training to the high
level it reached previous to his death.
 CoL Walker came to the University of Florida in the fall
of 1908. He found only one military company with about
fifty students. For eight years the department had a slow but
steady growth in enrollment. The installation of the Reserve
Officers Training Corps in 1916 gave a great impetus to the
department, for it meant that government inspection would
be made and that uniforms would be issued by the govern-
ment.
 The year 1917 brought the entrance of the United States
into the world war, and raised the military training being done
at colleges and universities to the highest importance. Dr.
Murphree was quick to sense this importance, and gave Col.
Walker and the military staff at the University of Florida
every encouragement in co-operating with the government in