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Show designate colleges fob military uses Sixteen Universities Selected Select-ed by War Department to Coach Soldiers. WASHINGTON, Oct. 17. Official authorization au-thorization for the training in military science of students in sixteen of the country's coun-try's leading universities and colleges was I given by the war department today to executive officers of the Institutions at a ' conference between them and ranking department de-partment officials. ! The purpose of the conference was to establish a systematic method for training train-ing reserve officers along lines described by the army reorganization law. It has been estimated that a corps of 50,000 reserve re-serve officers will be necessary to establish estab-lish an adequate military force should the United States become involved in war with a first-class world power. The curriculum will be drafted to cover ! such subjects as are known to junior officers offi-cers and will exempt graduates of such institutions from the necessity of taking the regular army examination In order to obtain commissions as reserve officers. It will be made effective when completed by a general order issued by the secre- 1 tary of war. Many other educational In- 1 siitutions are expected to install military training courses later. The conference concluded its work tonight to-night and adjourned to await the committee's commit-tee's report. The institutions authorized today to give military instruction are: Princeton university, Harvard university. Vale university, University of Michigan, University of Alabama. Virginia Military institute. Stevens Institute of Technology, Catholic University of America, Tehlgh university, Ohio State university. University Univer-sity of Tennessee, Clemetison Agricultural college, University of Minnesota, University Univer-sity of Illinois. City College of New York I and University of Vermont, |