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Show STUDENTS TRAINING CORPS AT LOGAN ERSITY President E. G. Peterson of the Utah Agricultural college has sent information in-formation to draft registrants of Ogden Og-den and Weber county who have inquired in-quired concerning tho students' army training corps. His letter follows: "In response to requests for Information Infor-mation concerning the students' army training corps, I have to advise further that said corps is composed of two sections, A and B, A for men below college grade, i. c., those men who have completed a grammar education but have not finished the regular four-year four-year high school course, and B for all high school graduates and former students stu-dents of the college with college standing. stand-ing. "We have just received a wire from ihe committee on education and spo- ' cial training for the war department including tho advice that students who f are not graduates of high schools I ; should apply through their local draft ' i boards for assignment to tho college i they wish to attend. They will then j undoubtedly as soon as possible, be J I sent to the college by their board. All 1 1 students, therefore, who are not high ; : school graduates are advised to see I their local boards immediately and the boards will, if not already, bo very j : soon instructed how to handle the ' i men so applying. "All high school graduates who wish 5 to tako advantage of this opportunity i and former students of college stand-, i Ing should register at the college. I Hicy will, of course, also register with j ! heir local draft boards. On or about i o)ctober 1, opportunity will be given t for all regularly enrolled students to be inducted into the students' army c training corps at the college. The stu- 5 dent by voluntary induction, becomes a soldier in the United States army, c uniformed, subject to military discip- A lino and with the pay of a private. (S In "view of tho fact that the soldiers will be on active duty status from the fj time they are inducted, on or about Ijl October 1, 1918, tho government will assume the expense from that time- of jj) their housing, subsistence and instruc- IP tion, except for books and other equip- ment usually bought by the students. H "All high school graduates should v slate on their questionnaires that they r have registered at the Utah Agricui- fl tural college for technical and mili- V tary training in the students' army jjj training corps." |