Arizona republican., 1918-07-03

the university has patriotic obligation of training physicians and engineers particularly. If the curriculum were made solely military on the one hand and solely academic on the other. no boy who expects to be a physician or engineer could get any military training without sacrificing the career for which he is preparing by his studies.
 Under the plan formulated, every student. unless specially excused by the department of physical education, will be required to take every week two hours of physical education sup elementary to his military training. In so far as is practicable a student will have an opportunity to meet this re- quirement by participating in the sport or sports in which he is most inter- ested. But no student may offer his work on a team as an equivalent un- til he has passed what will be known as the Group A test" This test re- quires him to make a high jump of feet 10 inches, bar vault of 4 feet inches. rope climb of 20 feet and one lap on an indoor track, IT'S yards in 25 seconds Tests will be given in October and May. Students who fail to pass will enroll in physical educa- tion classes.
 The plan proposes to take men who are not physically fit and make them physically fit. 1t IS estimated that the percentage of students fit for high military service can be doubled by the training.
 When a student passes the Group A test he must register for one of the following events: Football, soccer football, cross country, indoor track, boxing, wrestling, athletics (classes in track and field sports for beginnersl. basketball swimming. handball, ten | his, gymnastics.
 AS to the academic phase | Students will pursue the regular curriculum, in which military training l will be accommodated. Secretary of War Baker has sent to President But Ter a notice reading in part as follows: Military instruction under of ficers and non- commissioned of | ficers of the army will be provided
 in every institution of college
 grade which enrolls for the instruc-
 tion 100 or more bodied
 students over the age of eighteen.
 The necessary military equipment
 will, so far as possible, be pro-
 vided by the government. There | will be created a military train
 ing unit in each institution. En- l listment will be purely voluntary l but all students over the age of Is will be encouraged to enlist. The
 enlistment will constitute the
 student a member of the army of
 the United States, liable to active
 duty at the call of the president. It will, however, be the policy of
 the government not to call the
 members of the training units to active duty until they have reached
 the age of 21, unless urgent mili- call. Students under IS, and there-
 fore not legally eligible for enlist
 ment, will be encouraged to enroll
 in the training units. Provision will be made for CO., ordinating the
 reserve officers training corps
 system, which exists in about one
 third of the collegiate institutions,
 with this broader plan.
 Make Infantry Unit
 The physically fit students of Co., lumbia college will constitute an in- fantry unit, senior division, of the re- serve officers training corps.
 The secretary of war says the new policy, to be inaugurated in Septem. Der, endeavors to prevent unnecessary and wasteful depletion of the college: through indiscriminate volunteering by offering to the students a definite and immediate military status"
 Colonel Finley is now in charge O the junior Plattsburg. For his service in the Philippines, he has been com mended by Generals Wood, Bliss, Scott Parker and Edwards.