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STUDENTS' ARMY TRAINING CORPSOF THE

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August 31, 1918

University op Colorado BulletinVol. XVIII, No. 8 General Series No. 129

Published Monthly by the Regents ofthe University of Colorado.

Entered at the Post Office, Boulder, Colorado,as second-class matter.


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University of ColoradoThis is a day when University educationhas been weighed in the balance and foundnecessary in a war which can be brought to asuccessful conclusion only by the training and

discipline of our mental powers, as well asour physical powers, to the utmost of ourcapacity as a nation..To provide a reservoir from which to drawan unfailing supply of men properly trainedfor officers, administrators and scientific andtechnical specialists in the various branchesof tha service, the War Department hasestablished the Students' Army TrainingCorps. This new institution of the armycombines the advantages of a military campwith the broad training and influences of theUniversity Campus. Students eighteen yearsof age or over who have completed therequisite preparatory work for entrance tothe University and have the proper physicalqualifications for the army may be voluntarilyinducted into the Students' Army TrainingCorps B on October 1. They then becomemembers of the United States Army with allthe advantages as well as the responsibilitiesof a soldier. They are given uniform, sub-sistence, tuition, military training and equip-ment, and the pay of a private soldier ($30 amonth) ; they are subject to military disciplinetwenty-four hours a day, will live and messin barracks, and are subject to call at anytime.

. There will be no summer training campsbut the military instruction and discipline at

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the University will be intensive and strict.The daily program will be arranged upon amilitary basis somewhat as follows: reveille6:45, mess 7:00, drill 7:30 to 9:30, classes 9:30

. to 12:00, mess 12:00 to 1:30, classes 1:30 to4:30, athletics and exercise 4:30 to 5:30, re-treat and mess 6:00, freedom 6:30 to 7:30,supervised study 7:30 to 9:30, taps 10:00. Theclass work at the University will be organ-ized to have direct bearing on the war situ-ation.While it is clearly the desire of the Gov-ernment to give students as much collegetraining as possible, it should be emphasizedthat the War Department makes no promiseto keep students in college for any definitelength of time. Indeed the latest programrequires that practically all Class I-A men bein active service by June 1919, the only ex-ceptions to be men of unusual promise inscientific and technical lines.

All men over eighteen will register withtheir local draft boards on September 12.Students subject to the draft whose numbersare called before October 1 will have to gointo active service. On October 1 all studentsover eighteen, including Reserve Corps men,may be inducted into the Students' ArmyTraining Corps (Collegiate Section). Forthis induction students need not return totheir own local board, but may apply to thenearest board. Physical examinations willbe conducted by the draft board for thesemen as for all other registrants. After in-duction, the calling of the students' draftnumber sets the time for deciding whetherhe is to be kept in the University or sentelsewhere. To facilitate this plan the Uni-versity will be operated in continuous sessionon the quarter system, the first quarterbeginning the first of October. It is assumed

that no men will be called before the end ofthe first quarter, and by this time theirspecial capacities will determine whether theycan best serve their country by being sent toan Officers' Training Camp to qualify for acommission, by being assigned to the ord-nance, quartermaster or other Staff Corps,by being sent immediately to a division atone of the camps, or by being allowed to con-tinue their studies until they can qualify asexperts along technical or scientific lines. Inother words, this is a plan by which theSelective Service idea can be carried out inpractice as well as in theory.The latest advice we have is that membersof the Students' Army Training Corps maybe transferred to other branches of the serv-ice in the army or the navy upon the recom-mendation of the University authorities.There has as yet been no provision made forthe transfer of men in the Naval Reserve tothe Students' Army Training Corps but it isprobable that some arrangement will bemade by the Naval Department.Students under eighteen are not eligiblefor enlistment in the Students' Army Train-ing Corps, but may enroll at their ownexpense and secure all the advantages ofmilitary drill and discipline.

Students who have begun their studies atthe University, and have already been calledinto service, may, in case they have givenexceptional promise, be returned to the Uni-versity. They are requested to communicatewith their respective Deans if they so desire.It is important that all should realize fullythat under this plan the University is virtuallyplaced at the service of the Government, andwill shape its policies in accordance with thedemands that are made upon it by the WarDepartment, and that these demands will


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change as military exigencies require. It isfor all of us a time of continual adaptationand readjustment. The University is makingevery effort to provide quarters and ^ess insuitable barracks by October 1. The time isvery short and the emergency has arisenwithout warning, so that there will doubtlessbe a period of inconvenience during the firstweeks of the session. If the barracks arenot ready, there will be arrangements madeby the University to lodge students in tempo-rary quarters for the first few weeks.Attention is called to the fact thatthe University is also cooperating with theWar Department in the training of detach-ments of men who are sent here for briefperiods for intensive instruction in technicallines such as Auto and Truck Driving andRepairing, Telegraphy, General Mechanics,etcetera. Men may be inducted into thesedetachments (which are now the VocationalSection of the Students'Army Training Corps)who have had at least a grammar school edu-cation. From these detachments, exceptionalmen who have collegiate standing may betransferred to the Collegiate Section of theStudents' Army Training Corps.

It is sufficiently evident from the aboveprovisions that the Government desires thatevery young man who is eligible should enterthe Students' Army Training Corps. Manystudents will, however, be disqualified onphysical grounds who can be of great serviceto their country outside of the army. It isequally important that they should go to col-lege and train themselves to give to theNation the full measure of their powers.

All students who expect to enroll in theUniversity of Colorade this year are asked tocommunicate with the Registrar as soon aspossible.

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