Evening star., 1943-02-13
Outstanding Youths in Army
Get Chance at College March !
Procedure Outlined for Training of
AS Many as $50, 900 by End of 1o44

ana world geography, with due
emphasis on its synamic aspects.
Branch Into Specialties.
After completing the basic level.
Col. Beukema explained, those stu
dents selected for further instruc-
tion will concentrate on their spe
Cialties in engineering, medicine,
psychology and foreign areas.
In 1918 under the Army Student
Training Corps. college students
were put in uniform. In l943 the
ARM is putting the soldier student
in uniform. There is distinct diff
ference.
So, when Pvt. Doe goes back to
college, he will find out he is still a
soldier under strict military dis
Cipline. Reveille will be at $50 am,
taps at 1890 pm. When taps is
sounded he will be ready enough to
call it a day.
He won't fall into a soft berth for
the duration-as many no doubt are
inclined to believe. His weekly
schedule of pproXimately so hours
Will be somewhat harder than that
Of the average civilian collegian.
Here it is: Twenty-four hours in
classroom and laboratory, "a hours
OF supervised study assigned to be
! Gone outside the class, six hours of
Army supervised physical training
! and five hours of military drill
But all work and no play would
} ,,,olyo n pxyt
! Doe dull drudge. Somehow or
other, he will be able to squeeze into
/ this high pressure weekly schedule
| an hour Of leisure a day. On Sat
! urdays, in midafternoon. he will be
| free to take a quick trip out of
| town, perhaps, or drop in at the
nearest USO.
FurlOugh for Each Quarter.
The real vacation period. however,
comes at the end of each u weeks
| a weeks furlough before the start
of the next quarter. Many colleges
now start the next quarter term the
| day following the end of the previ-
Gus one, leaving perhaps month
between the spring graduation and
the beginning of the summer term.
| Pvt. Doe may have been tops" in
! athletics during his college days.
But in the new role of soldier STU
| dent, he won't be permitted to en-
gage in intercollegiate sports on the
| college team. He simply wouldn't
| be able to spare the time out for
varsity training, Col. Beukema said,
/ and the War Department decision
on such participation is an emphatic
| nc"
His physical training however, will
| include some phases of competitive
intramural sports. He will run sew
! eral miles a day, hurdle the in
evitable Army obstacle" course, box,
wrestle and learn thing or two
about rough and tumble, hand-to-
hand fighting.
How long Pvt Doe remains in COL |
lege training depends entirely on
the course to which he is assigned |
The shortest course is mechanical !
engineering-a matter Of six quar- |
ters of II weeks each. Electrical |
and civil engineering, for instance, |
will require seven quarters. If he
is chosen as a foreign area" stu
dent he may expect to remain any
where from six months to Is months
| before going back to a military unit.
Regular Faculty Teachers.
When he reports to college for
training, he will be turned over to
the dean and faculty on the same
basis as any other student trans
ferred from another institution. His
record, his intelligent quotient, his
showing in Army tests and tran
script Of his previous college rec
ord will go with him.
Except for his uniform and Army
discipline and supervision, he will
be much like any other student on
the campus. His teachers will be
for the most part regular members
Of the college faculty. Only the small
parteof his training that is definitely
military will be done by Army per-
| sonnel.
| What he gets out of his college
training depends mostly on himself.
/ If he goes through with flying COL
ors, the Army will have better SOL
| der and Pvt Doe may have a rea-
! sonable chance to attach a lieu
tenants bar on his shoulder at
later date.
1t is wrong impression to think
| that the Army socialized training
program Is being initiated with the
sole aim Of furnishing future officers.
Selectees with advanced college
training, for the most part, will be
| among those more likely to be sent
direct to officer candidate schools.
/ The soldiers with one or two years
college training are the ones more
apt TO be sent back to college-to
take their chances later at becoming
officers.
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