Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1918-09-14

boards in class.1-A for either limited
or unlimited military service will be-
indicted into the University of Vir~
ginia Students Army Training Corps.
This will make them: soldiers of the
United States Army and put them I'M
der military discipline They will re-
ceive the pay Of prvates, $50 month,
and all expenses of housing, feeding,
clothing, military and academic train
ing, medical care, and the like will be
paid by the War Department They
will be housed in the college dormitor-
les, which have become barracks; they
will eat in mess halls, get up and go
TO bed at bugle call, march to drill
ground, and to and from classes, be
subject to army regulations as to
leave and discipline. In word, they
will have all the privileges and re-
sponsibilities of drafted men in regu-
lar environments, but with the advant-
age of education at government ex-
pense to fit them for officers commits
sions. ~ TNskNE#
"The University will, as usual, re-
ceve students lG years old and under
l8. and other men disqualified for mill
/ tarv service. AS far as war condi-
tons permit, they will be afforded reg
ular academic and professional in
struction. But the whole life Of the
University will be changed to serve
primarily the needs of the student SOL
dicrs. Such subjects as French,
mathematics, and military geology,
which will embrace topography, map
making and other matters indispens-
able to all officers, will be given great
prominence. Students qualified for
the Chemical Warfare Service, the
! Medical or Engineer Corps will speci-
alize in those departments. More
general courses will provide intensive
instruction in the history, philosophy
and aims of the war, the mastery of
such terse and unequivocal English
as officers needu in writing and under
standing others, international and mil
tary law, and government Enlisted
men will be required to take II hours
military drill per week, and three
academic tickets Special adaptations
will be made for Medical and Engi,
neering students, as to number OF
tickets, but they will take the military
drill and be under the same military
discipline as all others. To make the
work as intensive as possible all
courses will be reorganized and the
University will continue in operation
four quarters of three months each,
thus occupying the whole twelve
months of the year.
"It is the plain duty Of every man
Of draft age, especially those of ordi-
nary student age to go to college this
year if he is qualified to do so. That
means that he must be a graduate Of
| Il standard four year High School, or
: have an equivalent amount of educa-
ton. For such man the doors of
the University of Virginia are now
wide open, not only without money
and without price, but with the privi-
lege of being paid dollar day, and
the chance of qualifying as a commits
stoned officer in the army Such men
and their parents should see that they
avail of this, for the War Department
is depending on this plan to keep up
its supply Of officers. The students
should come here between September
81 and %, prepared to pay their own
expenses until indicted into the army.
They must not wait to be sent to col
lege, but must enter the one of their
choice as they would in ordinary
times. The government will take
charge Of them after they matricu-
atc. ne university is ready to serve
the nation by giving all men qualified
to enter here the training the War De-
partment seeks for the future Off
GERS. This is no call to special priv-
lege or exemption for any class of
= young men. The safety of the nation
and the lives of the private soldiers
depend upon we'll equipped officers.
The men of college grade are called
to training for such service as the
colleges can give them. They will
find it hard work, like their fellows
in camp whom they will soon be called
on to join. Meanwhile their obvious
duty is to enter college and do their
best to qualify for commissions