New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-11
NATIONAL DEFENCE AT YALE


but in touch with the broadest permanent
plans Of the War Department Secondly
Yale believes that the greatest need OF TINS
country in defensive measures is the estao-
lishment and development Of an officers
training plan. in order to supply the instruc-
tors and leaders of any army that might be
created. Thirdly, as a practical step in this
direction, Yale considers that its own contri-
button to this permanent scheme for national
defence may best be made by offering to its
students the opportunity Of enrolling in this
latter service through the Yale Unit of the
Reserve Officers Training Corps.
Acting in accordance with the general
principles stated above, Yale University has
already taken the following steps:
The Reserve Officers Training Corps
I'D It has organized Yale Unit Of the
Reserve Officers Training Corps. This offers
its students the opportunity voluntarily to
take their places in the War Departments
general scheme to train officers of the artil-
lery arm.
The Armory al Yale Field
l2) II has built. with generous graduate
help lied by A. c. Goodyear, 80. of Buffalo,
Y. ". complete armory and stables at
Yale Field near the Bowl.
The instruction Armory Near the Campus
90 It has voted to build downtown in
structon armory for the Reserve Officers
Training Corps.
The Aviation Patrol
(p II has organized, through undergrad
yates especially interested in aviation,
Yale unit of the Volunteer Coast Patrol
/ Aviation Corps, a branch of the Reserve
Corps provided for in the National Defence
Act of June. 1916. This unit, consisting of
ten Yale undergraduates, was in training and
under instruction at Governors Island last
summer There are now enrolled in this
branch twenty-four men, who, with more to
come. will form the Yale Unit Of the Aero
Reserve Corps at the Government Aviation
Camp at Mineola, L. J., this coming summer.
The Motor-Boat Patrol
90 It has organized. under the direction
of Professor Mather Abbott (the Freshman
/ Crew coach, and John r. Murphy. 81. Of
the university, a Yale Naval Training Unit
of the Motor-boat Patrol. There are 1870
candidates out. for this unit at the present
moment. with n waiting list; the difficulty is
70 find sufficient instructors and 70 get the
necessary armed motor boats. The work Of
this third unit will chiefly lie in police patrol
Of Long Island Sound. with particular duties
under the Navy Department, at New York
and New London harbors.
The "Yale Research Committee
80 It has organized through vote of the
Corporation. "Yale Research Committee"
to cooperate with the National Research
Council. of which Director Russell II. Chit
tenden, of the Sheffield Scientific School, is
the Yale member.
The Government Intelligence Bureau
"a 1t has Organized. under the direction
OF Professor Joseph W. Roc 95 S. of the
Sheffield Scientific School Faculty state di
rector of this Government Bureau) Yale
Unit Of the intercollegiate Intelligence
Bureau
What Yale Is Prepared to DO in Event of a
Call for the Training of Volunteer
Officers if War Comes
It is also Of interest to state what it is
planned TO do in the event of war and Of
call being sent out from Washington for
volunteers TO train as officers of the neces-
sarily enlarged army. Numerous confer
ences have been held between the University
officers and L. s. A. officers detailed here,
and "The Alumni Weekly" is authorized 70
make the following announcements: In the
event Of war, then,
University Equipment for Government
Cd University equipment which will be of
service to the government, will be freely Of
fered for that purpose. A start has been
made through the formal offer last week to
the War Department by President Hadley
and the Physics Faculty. Of the Physics Lab
oratory on Prospect Street
Connection To BE Made with Fort sin
(2) There will be immediate touch effected
between the Yale Field Reserve Officers
Training Camp and Fort sill, oklahoma (the
chief artillery camp Of the United States
Army so that Yale can work in CO.
operation with the great army training
school there.
Undergraduates To BE Trained at New Haven
90 Underclassmen will be accepted as vol
unteers to form as many more units OF 500
men each as is necessary, Of the Reserve
Officers Training Corps, Yale Battalons.
with headquarters and training grounds at
Yale Field.
Graduates To Be Accepted as Volunteers
% Yale graduates Of recent years will be
invited and encouraged TO join the under
graduates in enlisting in the above organiza-
ton Of they are interested in developing
permanent system of national Defence.
Motor-boat and Aviation Plans
80 As many Yale undergraduates and re-
cent graduates as can be handled will be en-
rolled in the Yale Units Of (a) the Volun-
teer Coast Patrol Aviation Corps. and b. Of
the Motor-boat Patrol.
Graduate Drll-Masters Wanted
80 Yale graduates who have had exper-
fence as militia officers, and especially those