Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1918-08-22
PRESIDENTS SAY
STAY IN COLLEGE
Michigan College Heads Tell
Young Men Need is Great
for Trained Men.
THREE TO FORT SHERIDAN
Alma College Men Sent There to Get
Drill Work and Then Train
COllegians.

Presidents Of the various colleges,
normals and the university, who were
recently in session at the University
of Michigan are urging boys under
twenty-one years of age TO stay in
college.
At the meeting they issued the fol-
lowing statement:
The government Of the United
States is desirous that young men
enter college and remain there so
long as they can be spared from
active military service. President
Wilson, Secretary Baker and Sec
retary Daniels have publicly so
stated. The reason for the attitude
Of the government lies in the fact
that college trained men are in de-
mand as officers and for specialized
war service and will be needed in the
reconstruction period following the
war
~. $. Needs Trained Men"
ITO connect the college directly
with the prosecution Of the war.
military training will be introduced
this fall under the direction of the
war department into the university,
colleges and normal schools of the
state as generally as possible
ut is expected that military train
ing will be in operation in the higher
educational Institutes in Michigan the
coming year. The war department
is now conducting training camps for
men who will be in these institutions
and will assist in giving military in
structions."
Stay in College,"
eve, therefore, urge that boys un-
der q enter colleges as a means of
serving their country, both in war
and in the years following the war,
and we hope that parents, the press
and public-minded citizens generally
will join in the nationwide campaign
which is under way to keep our uni
versities, colleges and normal schools
filled with students during these
years Of war.
(Signed) Harry B. Hutchins, tresi-
dent University of Michigan
Frank S. Kedzie, president Michi-
gan Agricultural college.
Fred w. McNair, president Michi-
gan College of Mines.
Harlan F. Feeman, president Ad-
rian college
Samuel Dickie, president Albion
college
Harry NJ. Crooks, president Alma
college
Joseph W. Mauck, president Hills
dale college
Edward d. Dimnent, president Hope
college
Herbert L. Steetson, president Kali
amazoo college.
Theodore II. Wilson, president Oil
vet college.
Charles McKenny, president Michi-
gan State Normal college.
f. c. Warriner, president Central
State Normal school.
Dwight B. Waldo president West
ern State Normal school.
James H. B. Kay, president North
ern State Normal school.
Fred l.. Keeler, state superintend-
ent of public instruction"
President Crooks Of Alma college
this week said that the military stat
us of the college man has been cleared
up by the War Department. The
student soldier is enlisted in the mill
tary service and will be placed in
Class SD by the local board The
draft boards will not include him in
calls for induction as long as he re-
mains in the Students Army Train
ing Corps. When his number is
reached the fact is reported to the
college president, the commanding
officer and the Adjutant General. A
report of the mans record as a stud
ent is then made with the recommend
alton that he be sent to an officers
training camp, called to an army
camp or permitted to remain in col
lege by being transferred TO the En-
listed Reserve Corps.
This week Monday Lee Sharrar Of
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