The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1916-11-23
OFFICERS To
Be TRAINED HERE
STATE COLLEGE MADE ONE OF
FIVE SCHOOLS FOR THIS WORK
IN RECENT ORDERS
CAPT. MATS0N TOHAVE CHARGE OF WORK
Aim of Government Is To Train 10000
Men as Army Officers For Fu-
ture Service


five schools where army officers will
be trained by a recent order of the war
department. There will be from 25 to
so schools where this training will be
given and the instruction will be uni
form and in line with hat given at
West Point.
The five schools named in the last
war department order were:
Culver Military Academy, Culver,
lnd.-Infantry, cavalry and field ar
tillery units, senior division, and an
infantry unit, junior division.
Ohio State University, Columbus, o.
Infantry unit, senior division.
South Dakota State College of Agri-
culture and Mechanic Arts, Bookings,
S. D.-lnfantry unit, senior division.
College of st. Thomas, st. Paul,
Minn.-lnfantry unit, junior division.
Purdue University, Lafayette. Ind.
From Capt. Matson, commandant at
State College, the Register secured the
following synopsis of the recent order:
South Dakota State College is a land
grant institution and hence required to
give military training to all physically
fit male students over IA years Of age
up to and including the sophomore
class.
Under Section 40, Act of June 5,
1916, the President of the United
states is authorized to establish and
maintain at this institution, one or
Reserve Officers Training Corps"
OR. o. r. c.
The primary object of establishing
units of the r. o. II. c.. is to qualify
students for commissions in the Off,
GERS Reserve Corps, in order that, in
time of national emergency there may
be a sufficient number of educated
men, trained in military science and
tactics, to officer and lead i~ntelligently
the units of large armies upon which
the safety of the country will depend.
In order to have established and
maintained one unit Of the r. o. II. c.,
at least 100 students must be receiving
military training.
The course In military training during
the freshman and sophomore years,
will consist of three hours per week
counting IA units, of which the theo-
retical will count ten and the practical
four. The course will be a pre-re-
quisite for graduation.
When a unit OF the r. o. r. G.. has
beer established there will be issued
for each member the following uni
form:
/ Brooches, wooden, olive drab, pair.
! Cap, olive drab.
/ Leggins. canvas. pair.
] Cap and collar ornament, set.
! Coat, wooden, olive drab.
/ Shoes, russell, pair.
1t is also the policy of the War De-
partment to issue the latest model
arms and equipment, in so far as the
supply and the appropriations Of con-
gress permit.
Any member Of the senior division
who has completed two academic years
Of service in that division, who has
been selected for further military
training by the president of the insti-
tuition and the professor Of military
science and tactics, and who signs a
written agreement to continue the in
struction during the remainder Of his
course; to devote 5 hours per week to
the training prescribed and to pursue
the courses OF camp training during
such period, will be paid by the FEEDER
al Government communication of sub
sistance at the rate of approximately
80 cents per day or $500 per month.
Section 81, Act of June 8, 1916, pro-
vides that any physically fit male citi-
zen between the ages of 81 and q
years, who shall have graduated prior
to the date Of this act, from any edu-
catioral institution at which an officer
Of the army vas detailed as Professor
Of Military Science and Tactics. and
who completed the course in military
training. shall, after satisfactorily COM
pleting such additional practical mill
tary training as the secretary Of war
uha11 proacriho no o1ipih1o fOr aOuOinf.
ment to the Of1cers' Reserve Corps
and as a temporary additional second
l%ioufenanf "a heretofore do4crihod.