Do we need to worry that such establishments are spartan?
It was described by the regimental medical officer as tolerable but spartan.
If the people he thinks should undertake these spartan courses did not want to go, would he force them?
These are being entertained and, as evidence of the lack of a spartan régime, one prisoner is claiming for possessions lost in the riot.
I have visited the camps and know that they are pretty spartan, unpleasant places in which to spend any time.
There is a complete reversal of the trend towards spartan facilities such as we tended to see in this country.
They must be given a hard training, and they must realise that a spartan existence is called for from the start.
There is not a university or university college in the country where these spartan conditions prevail.
