The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-09-09
UNDER
MILITARY LAW
Students in Army Training
Corps at Richmond College
Must Reside There.
ENR OLLMENT OF 500
School viii Run for Twelve
Months Under Present Fac
ulty and Officers Detailed
By War Department.

All students OF military age detailed
by the war department for instruction
al the army training school TO be
esta hlished by the government at
Richmond college must reside at the
college, or in buildings under the con-
troll of the Institution. This was last
night announced by DR.. f. w. Boat
wright. president OF the college. upon
his return to the city following two
day conference In Washington and
Plattsburg with United States army
officers and the committee on educa-
ton OF the war department.
Under the terms OF the contract
closed with the government by DR..
Boatwright. acting for the trustees of
the college. FIVE hundred youths,
eighteen years and over. will be train
ed here. The course will be free to all
students named by the war depart
ment All expenses incident to the
course will be paid by the govern
ment. including tuition, board and
lodging. equipment and uniforms.
This VIII be in addition 10 the $40 per
month paid men selected for service
under the draft law.
The college viii be conducted along
lines similar to those under which the
Military Academy at West Point and
operated. The faculty viii be COM
posed Of the present instructors NJ
Richmond college. seven or eight COM
m issioned ofi1cers, detailed fur the
purpose by the war department. and
twenty ave Richmond college students
now In training who. when they re-
turn. will become cadet officers
Under the new arrangement the
college will run continuously for
twelve months. There will be four
sessions Of three months each. Each
course will he complete in three
months Al the expiration OF each
course the government viii, II is un-
derstood, send the more advanced stu
dents to officer training schools at
Camp Lee and elsewhere. Students
who do not apply themselves and who
fail In their examination will. DR.,
Boatwright said, be Immediately in
Quoted into the army,
The course will be similar to the
regular freshman course in colleges.
No student will be accepted by the
government. IL Is understood. : who has
not had AT least three years OF high
school work. Civilian students under
eighteen years old will be p. rmifted
TO enroll in the army training school.
Their expenses. however. will rot be
horne by the government until they
have reached their eighteenth birthday.
when they automatically become sub
iect TO the new draft law. The college
will open September ss, DIR. Boat
wright stated.
The problem of housing the five
hundred students In the manner pre-
scrihed by the war department regu-
lations Is big enc to the Richmond
college faculty and trustees Several
residences and apartment houses in
the vicinity Of the college have been
leased for this purpose. but more are
needed and il is not improbable that
the government. in order to meet the
situation, will construct a number OF
barracks on the college campus
Because Of the large enrolment re-
sulting from the contract closed with
the government, DIR. Roatwright took
occasion to impress upon local youths
contemplating entering Richmond col
lege this autumn the importance OF
enrolling without further delay.