Show COLLEGE TRAINING PLAZ play with president R 0 ln ot of lie hie massachusetts institute of 0 technology serving as educational head it if the students army training corps and a staff of 0 well known Ivil lans to help la in the task the war department s plan to have jevery every im octant college in the country a mill iry post lor for the raining ol of toen men tor for lie army navy is making rapid head ay on oil july 18 13 three large train tg ig cam camps ps at plattsburg Platts burg JS I 1 Y san cisco cal fort sheridan ill I 1 with v alth attendance of members ot of college faculties and selected students began a sixty day course de ignec to prepare men to assist tn fit aie te work ot of military instruction in i i ike ie college this year details of the plan have just been announced by the war department tile the plan is an all attempt to mobilize iid develop tile the brain power of 0 the loung men of 0 the country for these services which demand special training says the war department its object is to prevent the premature enlistment tor for active service of these ii a en who could by e extending st ending the i 1 briod of their college training mul liely manifold their value to the country in its announcement the department points out the needs for or highly trained men as officers engineers doctors chemists and administrators of 0 every kind ind the importance of this need can rot r ot be too itro strongly ugly emphasized nys the war departments circular this is a war in which soldiers ire are rot only marksmen but also engineers chemists physicists geologists d dieters die tors and specialists in many ollier ether I 1 lines scientific training is in dispensable engineering skill Is r by the officers who d direct every I 1 important military operation and who control our lines ot of transport and communication in the same way chemical and physical knowl edge are in constant demand at the front as well as behind the lines chile the task of 0 saving the lives and restoring the health ol of hundreds ol oj thousands of wounded calls for the services ot of regiments of 0 military 1 the scientific training which prepares a man to fulfill one ci 0 these highly specialized duties dutie s pid nod the more liberal training which I 1 elps clips to develop the qualities of leadership leider ship needed by the officer or administrator are essential elements of military efficiency the boy who enlists in the stu cants army amy training corps will he be it a member of the army of the unit c 1 states he will lie he provided by te dewar War department zinith uniform uni torin and aid equipment hut but wlllie wll lue be on oil furlough and will not receive pay ia will undergo regular military ir ining as a part ot of its his course dur lg l g the college year will attend a 21 g s c weeks camp for rigid and intense ane e military instructions with privates pay and will be subject to t a call of 0 we th e president for active ervice arvice at any time should the exigencies I 1 igen cliches cies of the military situation derand it the policy of 0 the govern vent r however will be to keep members of this corps in college unil their draft age is reached and I 1 tl e war department will have tile the I 1 ewer to order such men to continue 1 in college even after their draft age Is reached whenever their work is such saca that the needs of the service e g for doctors engineers chemists arid and tile the like ate such as to make at course advisable the students army training carrs is administered by tile the committee on and special tl training ining of the war department w icci ch is a section of the training ard instruction branch of the war plans division of the general staff competent officers and non commis bened officers will be assigned to tile the verlous institutions to carry on the wark of military instruction in view of tile the educational significance of the new plan dr P 13 claxto commissioner of education has 16 se it a copy of 0 the war departments state metat to school arid and college executives throughout the country |