Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-09-30
ARMY TENTS FOR MEN
IN RICHMOND COLLEGE
Barracks Will Not BE jscd Until
-t-S Passing Of Influenza
Scare.
TO ENTER SERVICE TO-DAY
Those Who Have Passed Examina-
tions 10 Take Oath This After
noon-Only Small Per Cent Fail
Physically.

Regulation army tents Of sunlcien,
numbers 20 accommodate The vas; en-
rollment at Richmond college wore
yesterday placed upon Il upUs OF
the institution by the col authori-
lies. This stop was tax IN order
that the men enrolled for service with
the student army training corps might
get taste Of military life nj the start
OF their work and might. AZ the Same
tine; enjoy the good weather Of carly
1t is not planned TO make immedi-
nte use OF the barracks In tho building
formerly occupied by The members Of
the Jefferson Cluh ana rendered by
them 70 Richmond College two weeks
ago. While large number Of tenn
Dorary wooden cots had been placed
within the building, If has been deem
10 the tents on the grounds, so that
the mon might, temporarily at least.
live In the open.
Arrangements have been made by the
college 10 have all cases Of sickness
cared for Immediately after they are
discerned. with The. assurance. that
the precautions in force in the regu-
lar army training environments to pre-
vent an epidemic OF sickness, such as
the Spanish influenza. the students OF
Richmond College have already begun
to take an active interest in the mill
tary organization in which they are TO
be indicted
Those applicants for service in the
student army training corps who have
successfully passed the physical exam
nations given by the college physi-
clans will this morning he formally in
Quoted into service and will be as
signed their tents.
WILL BE ASSIGNED TO TENT
AS SOON As SWORN IN
This morning ushcrs in the beginning
Of army life for the members of 1.-The
training corps 1t is anticipated that
the work of filling on, the triplicate
forms for all of the men desiring adj
mittance will be completed by noon,
ministered by o'clock. Immediately
after this. the students are TO be
marched TO their tents and assigned
low cases and sheets are not supplied
by the government. however, and each
man is expected TO furnish his own.
Only very small percentage of the
men admitted for physical examination
failed TO have been passed for military
service by the examining physicians,
Or. Cullen PITT and Or, T: n Barnet
abilities are being accepted for Tim
tied service" with the college military
unit. Thus 1t appears that all a.ppii-
cants for the student army training
corps. except those in. very bad physi-
cal condition, will see service OF some
character this winter.
YOUNGER STUDENTS REMAIN
IN COLLEGE NINE MONTHS
While nothing definite can be learn
seems TO he the opinion of the mill
tu.y staff al Richmond College that the
men who are eighteen years OF age Will
be allowed to remain in college for
nine months; that the rinetcen-year-
olds will see service in the student
army training corps for about six
months. and that those men who arc
twenty and twenty-one years of age
VIII be sent either to an officers train
ing camp or TO a regular army train
ing camp according to the quality of
their work at school. after three
months have elapsed.
No expenditures by the students will
he necessary other than those for text
hooks, pillows. pillow cases and sheets.
The men who have come TO school from
other localities have been buying their
own meals during the past week, be-
cause suitable arrangements for the
furnishing OF the college mess hail
had. until few days ago. not been
:nade. Every student is required 10 pay
a fee OF $40 in order that reservations
might he made for him IN the barracks.
IT is understood that this fec is TO be
returned in October.