South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-10-05
$4,000 STUDENTS
IN NAVY SCHOOL
Uncle Sans College at Great
Lakes Training Station
Largest in History.
Internatlooal News Service

International News Service
GREAT AXES. ILL.,. oct. THE
proposed Great Lakes Naval Train
ing station university. for the teach
ing OF seamanship and It's allied
arts, is assured. as the last of the
preparatory branches, the yeOmau
school, was opened recently.
Fifteen thousand youths are in
training az Great Lakes the larg-
est enrolment OF any institution in
America Famous and honored as
the seats OF learning the world over
are. none can compare in size TO
Uncle Sans own school at the big
naval station The faculty is un-
excelled FOR proficiency IN its vari-
Gus lines. The members are also
experts In the arts Of taking and
saving human lives for just as
much attention is paid 10 the en-
bryO gunner's mate as TO the hos
pital apprentice, though the BUSH
ness OF one is TO kin. and the other
20 save
Pine Athletes.
The resem blance of Great Lakes
20 the big universities is perhaps
best illustrated in the athletic de-
partment Some fine athletes from
middle western colleges are mem
Jers OF the football squad and the
coaching OF the gridiron men is in
the hands of Lieut. Emmett ANGEL,
assistant surgeon. T.. s. n. with
a record of Is years colleeiate ex-
peTience. This period covers adiiia-
tiOns with Harvard. Yale. Wiscon-
sin. oregon Agricultural college
and Western Reserve. The base
ball squad. under the tutelage of a
former big Lacquer, Felix Chouinard
is just winding up successful
season. Boxing. wrestling and
other sports are in the hands of
experts.
Special training is given i'm nine
instruction. schools on the station.
The daily classes are attended by
5000 men The length of the
courses vary and many bright stu
dents qualify in a fraction Of the
allotted time
To the student rookie" one of
the most attractive branches is the
radio school Two towers. 400 feet
nigh, with power 10 receive and
transmit message as far as the
Panama canal. enable the students
10 get practical experience i'm wire
less telegraphy Three hundred
students are graduated every three
months in radio They complete
their course I'm the naval reserve
school at Harvard university.
Large Medical school
one thousand students are at
tending classes i'm the hospital
schooI learning 20 care FOE the sick
and wounded. Many OF the students
are university Graduates and several
are registered physicians. In the
medical branch instruction is given
in pharmacy. botaNm bacterioIogy.
anatomy and first aid to the in
cured. II is planned TO graduate
800 students "a year
Another interesting department
of the training depot is the gun
merry school Youths who show APP
titude for this highly essential arm
of the service are entered for a
rwo months training course Before
they are rated and sent 10 sea they
1nust be able TO take apart and re-
.'i"Nt suns VI tf'Ae NalA'tl u0tu III
the fleet. Sixteen hundred guuner's
mates a year viii be turned out of
this school
Uncle sam will be furnished L.
200 quartermasters each II months
ty the Great Lakes station. There
is no connection between a quarter
master in the navy and a man of
the same title iu the army. The
uavy man has Charse Of the steer
ng OF the ship and also of signals.
'rhis course is thorough and lasts
eight months
Before July next year. 1900
,oxswains viii have been graduated
rom the school for the petty Of