The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-05-07
MILITARY DRILL
IS THE BILL IN
INDIANA SCHOOLS
Training in the Various
Branches in Vogue at
Nearly all Institutions.
(By Associated Press.l

| indianapolis, Ind, May Indiana
! colleges and universities now resemble
military training camps of various
sizes in many respects, as practically
all of the schools are giving the stu
dents physical or military work in
some form, which will help make bet
| ter soldiers of them, should they en-
list in the army. At some of the in
situations the work is voluntary, at
others compulsory. Several thousand
young men and boys are in training.
For young women, as well as some
of the young men, Red Cross work has
also opened up field for activity.
The largest body Of trained students
is at Purdue university, which has a
cadet body of 1000. Notre Dame is
second with 500. Purdue is a gov
eminent land grant university, and
military training there is compulsory.
The institution is providing agricul-
tural experts in one department and
in others is training hundreds of en-
gineers. Students are not alone in
showing a military spirit at Purdue,
as members of the faculty drill with
them. The work given the cadets
consists OF mimic battles and field
maneuvers twice a week.
Notre Dame voluntarily has made
mi litary INSTRUCTION compulsory.
Eighty-five per cent Of the students
at the university have joined the corps
and receive regular instructions in the
work.
Indiana university, which only re-
Gently adopted voluntary military
training already has about $50 stu
dents drilling under a regular army
officer. More than 400 co-eds have
enrolled in classes in Red Cross work.
A part of the Campus will be placed
under cultivation by the students.
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struction els elective, eighty per cent
Of the students are enrolled in the
military training classes. The work
is given for two hours each day to one
company at a time.
The majority of the $50 students in
Wabash college are being instructed
by a Culver Military academy officer.
Military instruction recently was add
ed to the Wabash curriculum.
The three schools at Terre Haute
are engaged in war preparation. Stu
dents at Rose Polytechnic must take
military instruction, and at the Indi-
ana State normal patriotism is much
in evidence. The men are organizing
companies for training, and the wo-
men have formed about thirty units of
the Red Cross. At st. Mary of-the-
Woods, the Sisters OF Providence coll
lege, the girls are being taught first
aid.
At Fort Wayne, Concordia college, a
school of the German Lutheran
church, extensive gymnastic work is
required Of the boys. A United States
army officer gives them instruction..
Culver Military academy is widely
known as a military and naval school,
and while it's enrolment is not as
large as some of the other educational
institutions in the state it probably is
doing the most extensive work in
training young men to be soldiers and
sailors, and officers of any school in
Indiana. The cadet corps is composed
of 500 young men. In addition to them
special short courses are being given
for reserve officers and others.
A number of smaller colleges, while
not requiring or giving military in
struction, are supporting the enlist
ment movement Students of Earlham
at Richmond, the Quaker school. are
getting ready for a call to arms, 1t is
said. Many of the men students are
drilling, and the -eds also are evinc-
ing their interest in various ways.
Vincennes university is directing
much Of its efforts toward food pro-
duction. Hanover college has taken up
war service and daily drills are given
about seventy FIVE per cent of the stu
dents. North Manchester college and
st. Meinrads, although they have not
yet started active military instruction,
are showing much interest. Valpa-
raise already has requested an officer
to give instructions there. The normal
colleges at Muncie and Marion have
lost a number Of students by enlist
ment in the army. Tri-State college
at Angola has raised company Of 100.
which is drilling daily.
The 1917 crop Of sugar from Cuba
will be about 100000 tons.