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Show TO DEMOBILIZE STUDENTjOflPS Contemplate Breaking Up All Units by New Year's. WASHIXGTOX. Nor. 23. The complete com-plete demobilization of the student officers' of-ficers' train inff corps, comprising units in hundreds of institutions throughout the country, has been docided upon by the war department. In making the announcement an-nouncement Secretary Baker aaid In j some cases the demobilization will starL immediately, and the plans of the department de-partment contemplate the breaking up of every unit by January . More than 60u institutions, with a student stu-dent enrollment of 160,000. were included in tho student army training corps. This orffanizn Lion was authorized in the last army bill and its purpose was to fur- , nish a reservoir of officer material upon which the army could draw. The corps w,is divided into two srr- ; tions, the collejrlate and vocational, the1 latter being designed to train trade spe- I cialists for the army. Contracts were j entered into between each institution and t the government under which the colleges and schools' wvre reimbursed for the additional ad-ditional ex pen sea necepsltated by the or- j g; niza t ion of the new unlL j Tho S. A. T. C, as it was officially termed, absorbed the old reserve of- ficers' trainlnc corps In th schools, b'lt i many of the institutions will reconstitute the old corps. I The pror-ops of liquidating contracts I with the institutions has already begun. it was baid today. Demobilization of the units is to begin "as near after Decern- ' ber 1 as is practicable," and officiaia hero believe the entire personnel will have been turned back to the college faculties by January 1. Supervision of the organization has been under control of a special educational educa-tional committee, headed by Dr. diaries U. Mann, dean of the Massachusetts Institute In-stitute of Technology. The military features fea-tures were controlled by a body of army j officers, with Kngadier General l.obcrt L Rees in charge. |