New-York tribune., 1918-10-27

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tablets marking battles of
Revolutionary days men are
drilling daily. Bugle calls punctuate
the day. The ncighborhood swarms
with uniforms-both khaki and blue.
Columbia University is an army post
now. On its campus four thousand men
are learning the art of war. To the
neighbors on Morningside Heights
they are Just soldiers-and a few
sailors. He who studies military in
sigma will find that there are five dis
tinct groups of military men, besides the
Young Mems Christian Association
group. Predominating, with about three
thousand men, is the S. A. I. C.--mean
ing Students Army Training Corps, al
though seasoned army veterans OF
eighteen months sometimes refer to it
iocularly as the Students Afternoon Tea
Corps. It's gay life these youths lead
-reveille at 5:45, drill until 10, classes
until 4, drill until 6, study until taps,
with time out, of course, for three we'll
earned meals.
Then there is the naval section of the
S. A. T. c., commanded by Rear Ad-
miral E. D. Taussig. You see these
land sailors rolling around the campus,
anchored down by the textbooks, from
which they are salvaging submerged
bits of scientific information. Their
sleeves, devoid of insignia, mark them
as noviees in the art of navigation.
Never, if you value your standing in
the community, confuse them with the
honest-to-goodness sea-going sailors of
the Navy Gas Engine School. Their
stripes and bars and eagles bespeak
their nautical lore. Picked men from
all naval stations, they are getting the
finishing touches to fit them for service
as chief engineers on the 110-foot SUBJ
marine chasers which are doing such ef-
fective work against enemy U-boats.
The boys in khaki with a white pro-
peller on a blue patch on the sleeves are
in the Air Service Radio School, COM
manded by Major Rodman Glider, of the
family famed as writer's. Non-f1iers
themselves, they are being trained to
care for the wireless used on airplanes
and otherwise connected with aviation.
Finally, there is one of the most in
teresting sections of our military forces
the Signal Corps School of Photogra-
ply. These are the modern historians
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picture apparatus are going to preserve
for posterity the deeds of American
vaor. On the firing line they are going
to shoot their machine gun cameras
against the Boche machine gun bullets.
Columba's gymnasium is housing the
cnematographic department. There,
for their dollar-a-day stipend, is where
motion picture experts are at work who
three months ago were earning $3.50
week.
Among them is Private Otto Gilmore
the photographer whose science perfect
ed the famous "prizma" pictures, and
who at the risk of his life took photo
graphs of the Hawaiian lava beds. Lieu
tenant Carl Gregory is in charge of in
struction in motion picture technique.
Captain w. F. Moderhak, commanding,
has Captain G. w. Manse in immediate
charge of the Photographic department.
1t must be great for you" ventured
10 the College Widow, who was show
ing us about, "to have all these uni
formed men around"
There was note of sadness in her
voice as she harked back to the good
old ante-bellum days.
Not bit of it, she replied. every
'h'ng has changed. No more fraternity
sAnsss. The fraternity houses are Of.