Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-10-24
STUDENTS ARMY
TRAINING CORPS
AT ST. JOHNS
Section OF S. A. 7. c. At Local
Institution, Vocational, Naval
And Marine Organized
PURPOSE. COURSE AND
RELATION TO DRAFT
Facts AS To Admission, Compen-
sation And Opportunities Of
fered Youth OF Maryland

st. Johns College. this city is one
of some $50 institutions of learning
in the United States which have been
designated as section of the Stu
dents Army Training Corps. or IS. A.
T. c." as il is abbreviated and gem
orally indicated. The other Maryland
State College of Agriculture. Western
Maryland, ST. Mary's, Washington
College and Baltimore College of Den
tai Surgery In the District of Co
lumbia. these institutions are desig-
mated: Georgetown, Catholic Uni
versity. George Washington Uni
versity and Howard University, the
latter a colored institution.
The Federal authorities have taken
the control of a number of other in
stitutions in order that their facilities
shall be devoted to the carrying on of
the war. About 100 are under con-
tract for the special training for vo-
cational training for soldiers. None of
these is in Maryland or the District.
There are about eighty-five National
sections, one being placed at Johns
Hopkins and others at Georgetown
and George Washington Universities,
i'm Washington. There are twelve
Marine sections, the nearest to this
point being those at Cornell. Ithaca,
n Y, and the Virginia Military lnsti-
tute, at lexington. Va.
In view of the existence of section
of the S. A r. c. statement of just
what il is and proposes to do. is of
interest.
Administration: The Students Army
Training Corps is administered by the
Committee on Education and Special
Training of the War Department,
Room 593 State, War and Navy Build
ing, Washington. ID. c.
Purpose:
The primary purpose of the Stu
dents Army Training Corps is to uti-
lize the executive and teaching per-
sonnel and the physical equipment of
the educational institutions to assist
in the training of our new armies. Its
aim is to train officer-candidates and
technical experts of all kinds to meet
the needs of the service. This training
is conducted in about $50 colleges,
universities, professional, technical
and trade schools of the country.
Vocational and Collegiate Sections:
The Corps is divided into two sections,
the Collegiate or "A" Section and the
Vocational or "B" Section The units
of the "B" Section we're formerly
known as National Army Training De-
tachments They aim to train SOL
diers for service as trade specialists
in the Army. AS the program for vo-
cational training is now virtually COM
pleted, few, If any. new units of this
type will for the present be added
The "A" or Collegiate Section,
which will be inaugurated October /,
is open to registrants who are mem
bers of some authorized college, uni
yersity or professional school Stu
dents of authorized institutions may
join the Students Army Training
Corps by voluntary induction into the
service. They thus become members
OF the Army on active duty, receiving
pay and subsistence, subject to mill
tary orders, and living in barracks
under military discipline in exactly
/ the same manner as any other soldier.
The housing, subsistence and in
struction of soldiers in obth branches
/ of the Students Army Training Corps
is provided by educational institutions
under contract with the Government
Choice OF Service.
The members of the Students Army
Training Corps are voluntarily in
Quoted into the service, and are ordi-
narily allowed to choose the branch
of the service for which they wish to
I be prepared. This freedom of choice,
however. is not absolute. 1t depends
upon the individuals qualifications
and upon the needs of the service at
any particular time.
/ Opportunities: The status of a
member of the Students Army Train
ing Corps is that of a private. Mem
bers of a Collegiate or "A" Section
who show by their rating in academic
and military work that they have un-
usual ability may be:
Ia Transferred to a Central Off
GERS Training School;
(b) Transferred to a Non-Commis-
stoned Officers School;
(c.) Assigned to the institution
where they are enrolled for further
intensive work in specific line as, for
instance in engineering, chemistry or
medicine.
Those members of a Collegiate Sec
rion whose record is such as not to
justify the Government in continuing
their collegiate training may be:
(a.) Assigned to a Vocational train
ing Section for technical training of
military value.