Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-08-25
Alumni OF UNIVERSITY
RESPONDED PROMPTLY
Great North Carolina School Repre-
sentcd by 1850 Students and
Alumni With Colors.
MANY PATRIOTIC ACTIVITIES
Every Anglo of Work Has Single
Aim of Contributing in Every
Possible Way to Americas Victory
in Great World War.
Especial to The Times-Dispatch.l

CHAPEL HILL. N c.. August "a
Thirteen hundred and fifty alumni and
students Of the University OF North
date by the registrar. Or. T. J. Wilson.
dresses are known. and the number
in the service whose addresses the
registrar has. been unable to ascertain
yond the 1900 mark.
The University's quota includes two
lieutenant coloncls: twenty majors;
eighty -four captains; 249 first lieu
tenants: 8l5 second lieutenants;. five
Chaplains, four lieutcnant-command-
,navyl: seven iieutenants tnavy): thir-
Teen ensigns (navy); sixty-seven in
GERS. and others. - 80 ''
PROMPT RESPONSE
FROM ALUMNI OF COLLEGE
When war was declared over $50
University students and alumni rushed
TO the first officers training camp at
Fort Oglcthorpe. Since then the stream
has been steady and continuous.
me University at the same time clas-
sif,cd It's alumni and students. and un;;
resources TO the government. Many
members of the faculty needed the call
ana are now In the army, or navy or arc
serving on expert war boards.
Military training was Immediately
taken up on the campus. the. result
being that over 500 students in citi-
zens' clothes received instruction un-
der student and faculty officers during
the spring of 1917.
EXTENSION SERVICE ADJUSTED
TO MEET WAR NEEDS.
Not content with merely training the
STUDENT body, the Extension Bureau of
me University, recognized as affordinE
the mass of people of the State. adapt
cd itself to war needs.
100000 people have heard lectures eV on
war subjects by members of the Uni
ton leaflets have reached North Caro-
lima homes; the war editions of the
University na news letter have Increased
group centers organized last spring en-
joyed mem bership of 500.
University lecturers have been sent
TO all parts OF the state TO help de-
stroy the seeds Of misinformation and
isnorance; to discuss the underlying
munities.
Two war study centers were es,ab-
lished last spring. at Raleigh and Win
ed this fall. Special lecturers were
sent TO other localities throughout the
WAR TIME ATMOSPHERIC
PERVADEs THE CAMPUS.
;, During the past collegiate year the
VIM wnhSersisy has been Literally ps5Xaded
tactics under the able direction of Cap
tain J. stuart Allen. a veteran of two
fight on the western front: Lieutenant
Jonathan J Leonard. OF the Harvard OF
V. Whitfield; formerly commandment at
the Horner Military School soon de-
vclopcd well-traincd battalion OF COO
student soldiers on the campus.
At the same time the standards OF
scholarship maintained gave evidence
Of more serious-minded student body:
AS SHOWN by the average grades of
both fan and spring terms. the highest
in recent years The college loafer be-
came thing OF the past
WAR ACTIVITIES CONTINUE
THROUGH SUMMER
Scheme OF preparedness inaugural
cd by the University has been contin-
tvs military training camp at Asne-
vile. Bingham Heights. conducted by
CAPTAIN J. Stuart Allen and Professor
I. r. Hickerson and extending through
period of six weeks, June II TO July
rs. was was, attended by l25 high school
and college students.
mcr school at the University under
the direction OF DR. Walker, which has
time slant Many new courses design
ed to specially train the teachers for
war needs were introduced for the first
The first official recognition OF the
efficiency of the military training at
the university during the last col
legiate year came early this summer
when the government designated the
university as n Reserve Officers Train
ms Soips, sNtulOT DIVISION. fecOSnl-
ton was further extended last month.
when l25 university students and fac
ulty members were appointed by the
government through the university 20
attend the Plattsburg Training Camp,
New York, for period of sixty days
beginning July IS.
The purpose of the camp is to train
the students for positions as college
othcers next year. so as to make more
effective and comprehensive the mil
tary scheme in educational institl-
tonS this year.
UNIVERSITY PLANNING
FOR FUTURE USEFULNESS
Meanwhile the university is bus;ly
planning for the future. The military
materially by the addition of Lieuten-
ant-Colonel q. w. S. Stevens, L. S. A,
and Sergeant John Hogan, U. S. =.
Captain Allen and Adjutant Whitfield
Will also be back.
In addition TO the courses offered In
cooperation with the war Department.,
a number Of new courses with dis
tinct war slant will be introduced. All
courses will be adjusted more or less
to meet war needs. To help meet the
demand for greater number of tech
ntcaliy trained men. new $125,0)0
engineering building is now in the
course of construction on the campus.
The extension work will be continued
on a greater scale than ever before, ac-
cording to plans being formulated by
the Extension Bureau. New war study
centers will be established and lee
turers sent TO every community.
THE STUDENTS ARMY
TRAINING CORPS
The government has made it plain
that mobilization and development of
brains as well as man power are es-
scntial to the winning of the war. I'm
der the War Departments plan recent
ly announced, providing for a Stu
dents Army Training Corps mt the uni
vcrsity. as well as ut many other in
situations Of collegiate grade. all young
men not drafted for service before col
lege opens in September are encour-
aged to attend college and enlist in
the Students Army Training Corps.
The object of the plan. as pointed
out by the War Department, lis to pre-
vent the premature enlistment for ac-
tive service of men who could, by ex-
tending the period of their college
training. multiply manifold their value
TO the country. This is war in which