Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1918-09-25
WAR DEPARTMENT ESTABLISH.
ES STUDENTS ARMY TRAIN
ING CORPS AT PLATTEVILLE.

The War Department has establish
ed at ~Platteville, a collegiate unit of
the S.. A. T. c. The military instruc-
ton and training will be given by of
fcers of the U. S. Army. The aca-
demic instruction will be given by the
faculties of the P%latteville Normal
and the Wisconsin Mining School.
ELIGIBILITY:
Any man Is to As years old Gin
clusive) who is:
/. Registered in the draft.
2. Physically fit to perform full or
limited military duty.
3. A high school graduate, or who
has completed thirteen units work in
high school. (The usual graduation
requirement of a high school is 16
units.)
4. An applicant who has not com
pleted 13 units in a high school, but
who has completed the educational
equivalent thereof, will be admitted
upon approval of the Credentials
Committee.
A.. A student entering the Stu
dents Army Training Corps is not
given deferred classification or tenn
porary exemption from service.
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his Local Board he may be volun-
tarily indicted into the S. A. T. c..
He will be placed on active duty inn
mediately upon his induction, and will
receive pay of $4,000 per month in
addition to quarters, mess and free
tuition.
c. officers, uniforms, rifles and
such other equipment as may be
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War Department.
D.. The student-soldiers will be
given military instruction under Off
GERS of the army and will be kept I'M
der observation and test to determine
their qualifications as oficer-candi-
dates, and technical experts such as
engineers, chemists and doctors. At
ter a certain period, the men will be
selected according to their perform
ance, and assigned to military duty
in one of the following ways:
l.. He may be transferred to a CEN
trail officers training camp.
2. He may be transferred to a non
commissioned officers training school.
3. He may be assigned to the
Their intensive work in a special line
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4. He may be assigned to the vo-
cational training section of the Corps
for technician training of military
value.
5 He may be transferred to a can
torment for duty with troops as a
private.
E. Similar sorting and reassign-
ment of men will be made at periodi-
| 0o1 intervals nc f1n rnnIirnrnnnfc nf
the service demand. It cannot now
be definitely stated how long a par
ticular student will remain at college.
This will depend on the requirements
of the mobilization and the age group
to which he belongs. In order to
keep the unit at adequate strength,
men will be admitted from secondary
schools or transferred from Depot
Brigades as the need may require.
Students will ordinarily not be per-
mitted to remain on duty in the col
lege units after the majority of their
called to military service at camp.
Exception to this rule will be made,
as the needs of the service require it,
in the cases of technical and scien-
tific students, who will be assigned
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in specialized fields.
F. In view of the comparatively
short time during which most Of the
student soldiers will remain in coll
lege and the exacting military duties
awaiting them, academic instruction
must necessarily be modified along
lines of direct military value. The
War Department will describe or sug-
/ noc4 c,,oI, o1iGoofiOa Tho oohad
uIe of purely military instruction will
not preclude effective academic work.
G.. Instructions will be given as
follows:
1. BY THE MILITARY DEPART
MENT IL hours per week military
training.
2. BY the Institutional stats State
Normal and Mining Schools, IA hours
per week. Three hour course in
"War Aims" required of all students.
Eleven hours elective from the fol-
lowing list, which has been approved
by the War Department:
English, French, Trigomometry,
Geometry, Algebra, Physics, Chemist
ry, B~acteriology, Geology, Geography,
Surveying, Accounting, War History,
Psychology, Mineralogy, Topography,
Map Drawing, Hygiene, Sanitation,
Mechanical, Freehand Drawing.
Other subjects will be added from
time to time at the request of the War
Department.
H. Fill out enrolment blank and
send same to either the Platteville
State Normal School, or the Wiscon-
sin Mining School, Platteville. Wis.
Do not delay sending your appli-
cation, as the number Of men whom
the institutions at PlattevilIe can
house and teach is limited. The plan
which will be vigorously adhered to
is FIRST COME, FIRST SERVED.
Tell your friends who are qualified
about the S. A. T. G. SO that they may