The Cadet Corps at his school absorbed most of his interests.

He held emphatic opinions upon the war, and aired them daily to his family over the morning paper.
According to his accounts, matters seemed likely to make little progress until he and his contemporaries at Longworth College should have reached military age, and be able to take their due part in the struggle, at which happy crisis the Germans would receive a setback that would astonish the Kaiser.
"Our British tactics have been all wrong!" he declared.

"I can tell you we follow things out inch by inch at Longworth, and you should just hear what Johnstone Major has to say.

Some of those generals at the Front are old women! They ought to send them home, and set them some knitting to do.

If I'd the ordering of affairs I'd give the command to fellows under twenty-five! New wine should be in new bottles." The younger children listened with admiration to Percy's views on war topics, much regretting that the Government had not yet obtained the benefit of his advice.