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Show PRINCETON TO BE . MADEJILITARY Wil! Adopt Three -year Course of Training and Instruction on June 24. PRINCETON', N J , Junn 4. After having sent 3322 undorernduatec alumni, faculty members, trustees and other officials to the war, Princeton universl on June 24 next will become 0 "military college" A three-year course of training and instruction ap proved by the general staff of the United States army will on that d.n he inaugurated and every student will be under strict militarv discipline and ea1 and sleep like soldiers in barrack? instead of their more comfortable dormitories. dor-mitories. For months Princeton university has taken on the aspect of a training camp for here more than 700 men from all parts of the country, students in the government school of aeronau tics, have been coached in the theory of flying preparatory to being sent to Mineola. Pensacola, San Diego and oth cr aviation renters. The war department sometime ago made it possible for any college having a reserve officers' training corps to adopt the system which is soon to go iDto effect here. Ya, Amherst and other institutions are understood to be considering its adoption but Princeton Prince-ton will be the first university to put into actual operation. Summer Session to Open. Briefly the plan contemplates an opening summer session for graduates, undergraduates, qualified freshmen and other candidates at which the fol-f fol-f " lowing subjects will be taken up: Modem language, surveying, topog-IJ topog-IJ raphy, descriptive geometry, ordnance, hygiene and practical military instruc tion prescribed from the followinc t Infantry drill, minor tactics, target practice individual, collective and field firing), problems in musketry, signalling (semaphore, telegraph and wireless), machine guns, bombs and bombing, gas engines, administration, gas defense and practical military engineering. en-gineering. A fee of $150 will cover board, room and instruction. A course is so arranged that a freshman fresh-man entering college at the normal age will have completed it and become eligible for his degree b the time he reaches draft age. The new military course, therefore, while paralleling the regular four year curriculum which , will be maintained as usual, will cover three years and the two intervening summers One feature that is expected more than any other to allay the unrest among patriotic youngsters at colleges who long to don the khaki and take their places on the firing line has been provided b the war department. Ac- I cording to a recent order of Secretary I Baker, students 18 years of age. or ! I over, taking the new military course I may enlist in the United States army I and will be detailed to Princeton, or. I any other college adopting the system I I for study and training. Such enlisted I students will be in the United State I army, and will be subject to call by the president of thf T'nited States bui I nnlv in case of rreat national need. The same provision is made for men j entering the Princeton naval training unit course, which will be greatly extended ex-tended this year. Strictly Military Training. Professor S B. Eisenhart, one of the leaders in the new military training nements, in discussing it, said. "One essential feature of the new course is the system of strictly military mili-tary training. The student will be a soldier and will live a military life He will not, as now, merely drill several times a week and then go about his college life in the same old way." The expectation is that all students will have fitted themselves for com I missions as second lieutenants upon I the completion of their study. After I the first year of military training. which will be obligatory upon all fresh-i fresh-i men, it will be optional wtih the lat-I lat-I ter whether they desire to continue or j to go into the four-year academic course. The commandant here is Major J. A. Pearson of the United States cavalry, caval-ry, detailed as professor of military science and tactics. Assisting him are Captain Cornelius of the Canadian overseas ov-erseas forces and Lieutenant Paul de Fourmestraux of the French army, both of whom were wounded in battle and le been detailed by their respective re-spective governments to the work of instruction here. Among the college men who are taking tak-ing up the new military work with great enthusiasm is Richard F. Cleveland, Cleve-land, a son of former President Cleveland, Cleve-land, who until recenrfy was a first lieutenant in the reserve officers' training corps of Princeton. A few days ago Lieutenant Cleveland was promoted to be a major in command of the regiment. nn |