The Washington herald., 1918-09-16
ARMY YOUTHS
GET COLLEGES
400 Educational Institu-
tions to Train Soldiers
for Army.

The War Department yesterday an
nounced the plans under which 1t
win send from 10000 to 10000 youth
, ful soldiers to college this winter.
, paying them as soldiers for the time
they spend in study and classes.
Four hundred colleges. universities
!. and technical yehools have accepted
the governments otter to use their
plants for the Students Army Train
ing Corps. Their regular courses will
: be given along with special courses
in military training under the super
vision Of army officers.
Students Of IS years or over enter
; ing college this fall become by VOL
untary induction soldiers in the U. s.
army. They will be fed, sheltered.
clothed and equipped at the govern
ment's expense, their tuition paid and
they will receive the pay of privates
in the army.
Students not yet Is may attend the
colleges as usual by paying their
own expenses and such proportion OF
their tuition as may become due be-
fore they arrive at the age Of IS
Times will be appointed for their
formal registration for selectfve serv-
Ice obligations as they arrive at IS,
after which they will be inducted
into the army. and continue their
studies at the governments expense
To Use Frat House.
College dormitories and fraternity
houses will in the main be used to
house the students in the normal way;
but where these prove inadequate bar
racks may be built
The government will assume these
. obligations October /. and in COL
leges opening before that time. the
students must pay their expenses and
the pro rata proportion OF their
tuition up to that time
Members OF the Students Army
Training Corps will not be subject to
draft call during the first quarter of
the college year. even though their
order numbers might subject them to
service, but at the end of the first
quarter the government may with
draw those students who are 20 years
or more Of age.
Students OF the age Of Is or 10 may
remain in school for some months
longer. depending on the military
needs
When the students are taken from
college they will be assigned TO mill
tary duty in one of five ways:
L. Sent to a central officers train
ing camp:
2. Sent to a noncommissioned Of
1cers' training school.
3. Kept in the original school for
further intensive work in a speci-
fed line for limited time;
I. Put into technical training of
military value;
5. Transferred to a Cantonment
for duty with troops as a private.
Studies by the government on the
cost of maintenance of the students
resulted in an allowance of 81 a day
for housing and subsistence. This
was based on five months experience
with 100 collegiate institutions and
100000 soldiers in the National Army
Training Detachment, which show ed
an average per diem cost for hOus-
ing Of Is to 20 cents. and for sub
-sistence of 20 to so cents.
Eleven hours a week will ordI-
narily be devoted to military sub
jects. drill and physical training and
- hours to lectures. recitations.
laboratory instruction and the nee
essary preparation therefor.
Young men of draft age, but who
have not completed the preparation
necessary to admission to college,
though with a grammar school edu-
cation may offer to enter the voca-
t'"7st rr,'''"r Of the corps by appli-
-aa - boards