New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1918-08-03
MILITARY COURSE
FOR COLLEGE men
Will Continue in Training Until
Draft Number Is Called

| NncfC men snow promise ATOMS GOAAiG
| line of study essential to the war
| continued in college to so on with
| college work, was announced today
! by William Arnold ShanllIin, dircc-
| tor for Connecticut of the American
! council on education. through the
| Connecticut State Council Of Defense.
Under this new war departm
plan, college men will enlist or en-
roll and continue in training until the
day their draft number is called.
I Then officials will decide whore the
man can best serve his country. Those
qualified to do so will be ordered to
continue their studies. Others best
fitted will be sent to an officers train
ing camp. Still others whose quail
fcations make it advisable will be as
signed to some branch of the mill
tary service. The student who shows
no ability for special service in col
lege, or military work will be ordered
into active service as q private when
his draft day comes.
Yale university, Trinity college, !
Wesleyan university and the Connec
ticut Agricultural college are included
in the list Of American colleges and
universities where this plan becomes
effective With the beginning of the
college year. This students army
training corps is intended to super
sede the reserve officers training
corps, and has been designed to per
nit college men to continue their
studies with the consciousness that
they are fulfilling their military obi
cations in the manner which the ma
ton believes best. Copies of the plan
are being mailed by DR.. Shanklin 20
all male graduates of Connecticut
high schools in classes which were
graduated in June.
The war department has requested
the American council on education to
notify all young men in America,
qualified for college, of its purpose
to create in the army Il students
army training corps, and to urge such
young men to enter or to remain i'll
college.
The following regulations have
been made by the: War" department
concerning enlistment and enroll
ment: All abled-bodied students IN
the colleges in which training units
are organized will be encouraged to
enlist if over the legal enlistment age
of eighteen. Students urGcr eighteen
will be encouraged to enroll in the
training units. Students neither en-
listed nor enrolled will not be en-
titled to enter the training units or
to receive the instruction. The en-
1istment contract of all students over
eighteen will constitute them mem
bers of the army of the United States,
ject to active service at the call Of
the president.'
The status of an enlisted student
is outlined as follows: "A student
enlisted in the students army train
ing corps is in military service of
the United States. Because he does
not receive pay, he is classed as on
inactive service, but in a national
emergency the president may call
him at any time to active service. He
is called to active service each sum-
mer when he attends camp for six
weeks and receives the pay of pri-
vate."
The students relation to the draft
is as follows: Any student so en-
listed, though in the military service
of the United States is technically on
inactive duty, and therefore must
register after he has reached draft
age and upon notice by the presl-
dent Upon stating on his question:
naire that he is already in the mill
tary service of the United States, he
will be placed automatically by his
local draft board in Glass V-D as pro
yided bv the selective service regu-
lations. The draft board will not call
him for induction so long as he re-
of students
army training corps.
In order. that the college may not
even appear to enjoy special privileges,
it is agreed that when the day arrives
on which. according to his order num-
Der. he would have been drafted had
he not already volunteered, the fact
is reported to the president OF the
college, and to the commanding officer
at the college, who in turn reports it
to the adjutant-g general. This is the
day of reckoning for the college man.
The president of the college and tho
commanding officer will then report 20
the chairman of the committee on ed
ucation and special training Of the
war department, for what form of mil
itary service the Individual is in their
Judgment best qualified. They will
recommend either that the student
should continue his studies to prepare
for work in medicine, engineering,
chemistry, psychology, economies, etc,
or that he should go at once to an Of
ficerS' training camp to prepare fOr
an officers commission in the infantry
artillery, etc, or that he should be
assigned to work III the ordnance
uuartermaster, or other staff corps or
sent Immediately to division AT on"
,f tha camuS LieIlttnunt-E OIOnti
, Rees commander Of the entire stu
dents corps, has authority to dispose
his men in the way best suited ["
meet the emergencies of the military
and national situation at the tllnc'
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