Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-09-19
COLBY COLLEGE
Special Bureau for Promotion
Of National War Work Coun-
Gil of Y. NJ. c. A. Established
at Colby-Football Prospects
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Two former Colby men, Mark r.
Thompson II and Paul A. Thompson
Is, were commissioned for duty as line
or deck officers on Wednesday of this
week when 11o0 Naval Reserve officers
completed a three months training at
tho Naval academy. Annapolis.
Announcement is also made that Lee
land D. Hemenway II, remembered
among Colby men as tutor in mathe-
mates, has just been commissioned
second lieutenant, ordnance department.
Secretary j. y. Birge. representing the
National War Wor Council of the Y.
". c. A. of the United States, was in
the city Tuesday comforting with Prof.
Herbert c. Libby of Colby on the assoc
cations activities in connection with
the Student Army Training Corps.
The introduction of the S. A. T. c. IN
the colleges of the country has SO in
creased the labors of the War Work
Council that it has been obliged to es-
tablsh a special bureau for the promo
ton of the associations work in the
colleges. Secretary Birge was here rep
resenting this special bureau, and the
primary purpose of his visit was that
| of selecting suitable quarters for the
| Fed Triangle work. to explain in detail
! the various lines of work which the Red
| Triangle would tie expected to follow
out and to make clear what part the
| government would play in the formal
activities of the association.
| 1t is the purpose of the War Work
! Council, through its specially created
| bureau, to furnish the Colby S. A. T.
| c. the same facilities in the way of sup
| plies. equipnast and personal service
| that it has been Furnishing to the officers
| and enlisted men at home and overseas
ever since Americas entrance into the
! war. In other words, it is proposed to
make the headquarters Of the %2ed Tri-
! angle on the college campus the social
center for all S. A. r. c. men. IN
Extensive changes in the schedule
OF courses, and an addition of sew
eral new courses, viii mark the in
! PRODUCTION of the STUDENT Army
Training Corps at Colby College
The working out of the very compN-
Gated schedule VIII be, left with a
special committee soon to be A.
pointed by the faculty of the college
I Several members of the teaching staff
have already been notified of new
1 courses which must be offered to
meet the demands Of the Government.
and the plans and purposes of the
Government are being carefully
studied by them. The special branch
es to be offered include War Aims
Course to be conducted Jointly by the
departments of history, economics,
| English and philosophy; navigation
for the naval reservists; topograph
and map making; trench" French;
! trench" German; sanitation; and
war psychology.
| In answer to numerous inquiries as
to whether football would be played
at Colby this fall. President Arthur
! J. Roberts stated that the College had
no announcement to make in refer
ence to the matter, and made the fol-
lowing statement in explanation:
| Most of the members of the body
will belong to the students Army
diIilS Wi pS, dht eiDodl NIICAl Dul-
side activities the College has Moth
ing whatever to say. They will be
soldiers and their day will be Or
dered by the Commander of the
Colby unit There will be at Colby
the coming year, so far as the mem
! bers Of the s. A. T. G. ar concerned,
| only such athletic activities as the
! military authorities NAV preScrihe
"If there are enough men in Col
lege who are not Naval reservists or
members Of the S. =. T. c. to make a
football team it is not at all likely
that ther0 would be objection on any
body's part to their playing. But
certainly nineteen -twenthieths of the
football material at Colby this com
ing year will be included in the
above named classes"