Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-09-25
NAWPAYS TUITION
OF COLLEGE QUOTA
Erroneous Impression Cor
rected as to Youths in Train
ing at Various Schools.
BY DAVID LAWRENCE.

Copyright, 1918, by the New York Evening
Post Company
There seems to bean impression
abroad that the Navy is not going
to pay the tuition of the quota of
| naval sections of the Students Train
ing Corps. This is not true. The
Army gives the students the regular
| enlisted mems pay and takes care
Of subsistence. instruction, etc, in
fspecdaf contracts with each of the
colleges. The Navy will enter into
no contracts with the different COL
leges, but it will give the naval stu
! dents the regular pay of enlisted men
| and then in addition certain al
| 1owance to cover their board and tut
! tion.
The Navy will of course base it's al
| lowance on the rate paid by the Army
students will have the advantage Of the
| arrangements made by the Army and
the funds will be paid by the Navy
| through the students. 1t amounts to
the same thing as the Army is doing,
| but the procedure and medium of pay
| ment are different.
| Naval students, however, will have
! to furnish their own cot or bunk or
bed, and because the pay of an en-
| listed man in the Navy is $3.50 a
month, whereas the Army pays only
$780, the officials at the Navy Depart
| ment have thought the student could
get hold of bed for himself for few
dollars. and still be better off than the
| Army student, who doesn't own the
| bed which the college furnishes him
by contract with the War Department
or which the Quartermaster Corps may
assign to him. Rental of the rooms.
however, is to be included in the rate
per day which the colleges are to give
naval students to cover instruction
and subsistence.
| The plan relieves the Navy of much
work that the Army will have done
and is one of those cases, all too few
in which one branch of the service has
rival branch. A corrected circular let
ter sent out by Admiral Palmer OF
the bureau Of navigation, dated to-
day, gives the latest information as
to the method of operation of the
naval sections of the Students Army
Training Corps.
Circular Letter Explains.
! 1t says, in part:
| SuUJeCL 10 desiring
to enroll in the United States nava
unit or naval section of the Students
Army Training Corps at certain speci.
/ fled institutions which have been as.
| signed naval quotas shall make appli.
cation to the Navy Departments rep
resentatfve present at the institution
| for entrance into the Navy.
! Applicants shall be considered in
the order in which filed, and appli
cants shall, upon satisfactorily meet
ing the physical requirements for en-
tering the Navy, on October 1, be ad-
mitted into the naval reserve force as
lapprentice seamen. An enrolling Of
ficer Of the Navy will be present al
the institution prior to October 1 for
the purpose of perfecting arrange
ments for enrolling ON or about Octo-
Der l, in accordance with the regula-
tions agreed upon by the War De-
partment and Navy Department. The
number accepted from any institution
shall not exceed the quota assigned to
! that institution without permission OF
the Navy Department.
Details of Curricula,
'The curricula of the United States
naval units and the naval section
students shall be based upon a term
| OF three months, similar to that fol.
lowed by the Students Army Trainine
Corps. There shall be preparatory
course for the line: and basic en-.
gineering courses to meet the en-.
gineering needs of the Navy. In.
struction as to currfcula will be is.
sued by the Navy Department from
time to time. Commandants Of the
| United States naval units shall. ir
conjunction with college authorities
| arrange courses subject to approval
of Navy Department.
members of the United States naval
units and the naval section of the
! Students. Army Training Corps will
| after a certain period. be selected. ac-
! cording. to. their performance and as.
signed naval duty in trainine
camp"
Some members of the Naval Resery.
who have already been taking course.
of instruction in the colleges and VIII,
previously had enlisted in the Nav,
will not be counted in the quota as.
signed to the college where they are
studying. but they must Immediately
Join the naval section Of the Students
Army Training Corps.
Georgetown University has a quots
assigned to 1t Of 100 and George Wash.
Nuef0n University fifty