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STUDENTS' ARMY TRAINING CORPS 
 
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 August 31, 1918 
 
 University op Colorado Bulletin 
 
 Vol. XVIII, No. 8 General Series No. 129 
 
 Published Monthly by the Regents of 
 the University of Colorado. 
 
 Entered at the Post Office, Boulder, Colorado, 
 as second-class matter. 
 
Students' Army Training Corps 
 
 of the 
 
 University of Colorado 
 
 This is a day when University education 
 has been weighed in the balance and found 
 necessary in a war which can be brought to a 
 successful conclusion only by the training and 
 discipline of our mental powers, as well as 
 our physical powers, to the utmost of our 
 capacity as a nation.. 
 
 To provide a reservoir from which to draw 
 an unfailing supply of men properly trained 
 for officers, administrators and scientific and 
 technical specialists in the various branches 
 of tha service, the War Department has 
 established the Students' Army Training 
 Corps. This new institution of the army 
 combines the advantages of a military camp 
 with the broad training and influences of the 
 University Campus. Students eighteen years 
 of age or over who have completed the 
 requisite preparatory work for entrance to 
 the University and have the proper physical 
 qualifications for the army may be voluntarily 
 inducted into the Students' Army Training 
 Corps B on October 1. They then become 
 members of the United States Army with all 
 the advantages as well as the responsibilities 
 of a soldier. They are given uniform, sub- 
 sistence, tuition, military training and equip- 
 ment, and the pay of a private soldier ($30 a 
 month) ; they are subject to military discipline 
 twenty-four hours a day, will live and mess 
 in barracks, and are subject to call at any 
 time. 
 
 . There will be no summer training camps 
 but the military instruction and discipline at 
 
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the University will be intensive and strict. 
 The daily program will be arranged upon a 
 military basis somewhat as follows: reveille 
 6:45, mess 7:00, drill 7:30 to 9:30, classes 9:30 
 . to 12:00, mess 12:00 to 1:30, classes 1:30 to 
 4:30, athletics and exercise 4:30 to 5:30, re- 
 treat and mess 6:00, freedom 6:30 to 7:30, 
 supervised study 7:30 to 9:30, taps 10:00. The 
 class work at the University will be organ- 
 ized to have direct bearing on the war situ- 
 ation. 
 
 While it is clearly the desire of the Gov- 
 ernment to give students as much college 
 training as possible, it should be emphasized 
 that the War Department makes no promise 
 to keep students in college for any definite 
 length of time. Indeed the latest program 
 requires that practically all Class I-A men be 
 in active service by June 1919, the only ex- 
 ceptions to be men of unusual promise in 
 scientific and technical lines. 
 
 All men over eighteen will register with 
 their local draft boards on September 12. 
 Students subject to the draft whose numbers 
 are called before October 1 will have to go 
 into active service. On October 1 all students 
 over eighteen, including Reserve Corps men, 
 may be inducted into the Students' Army 
 Training Corps (Collegiate Section). For 
 this induction students need not return to 
 their own local board, but may apply to the 
 nearest board. Physical examinations will 
 be conducted by the draft board for these 
 men as for all other registrants. After in- 
 duction, the calling of the students' draft 
 number sets the time for deciding whether 
 he is to be kept in the University or sent 
 elsewhere. To facilitate this plan the Uni- 
 versity will be operated in continuous session 
 on the quarter system, the first quarter 
 beginning the first of October. It is assumed 
 
 that no men will be called before the end of 
 the first quarter, and by this time their 
 special capacities will determine whether they 
 can best serve their country by being sent to 
 an Officers' Training Camp to qualify for a 
 commission, by being assigned to the ord- 
 nance, quartermaster or other Staff Corps, 
 by being sent immediately to a division at 
 one of the camps, or by being allowed to con- 
 tinue their studies until they can qualify as 
 experts along technical or scientific lines. In 
 other words, this is a plan by which the 
 Selective Service idea can be carried out in 
 practice as well as in theory. 
 
 The latest advice we have is that members 
 of the Students' Army Training Corps may 
 be transferred to other branches of the serv- 
 ice in the army or the navy upon the recom- 
 mendation of the University authorities. 
 There has as yet been no provision made for 
 the transfer of men in the Naval Reserve to 
 the Students' Army Training Corps but it is 
 probable that some arrangement will be 
 made by the Naval Department. 
 
 Students under eighteen are not eligible 
 for enlistment in the Students' Army Train- 
 ing Corps, but may enroll at their own 
 expense and secure all the advantages of 
 military drill and discipline. 
 
 Students who have begun their studies at 
 the University, and have already been called 
 into service, may, in case they have given 
 exceptional promise, be returned to the Uni- 
 versity. They are requested to communicate 
 with their respective Deans if they so desire. 
 
 It is important that all should realize fully 
 that under this plan the University is virtually 
 placed at the service of the Government, and 
 will shape its policies in accordance with the 
 demands that are made upon it by the War 
 Department, and that these demands will 
 
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 change as military exigencies require. It is 
 for all of us a time of continual adaptation 
 and readjustment. The University is making 
 every effort to provide quarters and ^ess in 
 suitable barracks by October 1. The time is 
 very short and the emergency has arisen 
 without warning, so that there will doubtless 
 be a period of inconvenience during the first 
 weeks of the session. If the barracks are 
 not ready, there will be arrangements made 
 by the University to lodge students in tempo- 
 rary quarters for the first few weeks. 
 
 Attention is called to the fact that 
 the University is also cooperating with the 
 War Department in the training of detach- 
 ments of men who are sent here for brief 
 periods for intensive instruction in technical 
 lines such as Auto and Truck Driving and 
 Repairing, Telegraphy, General Mechanics, 
 etcetera. Men may be inducted into these 
 detachments (which are now the Vocational 
 Section of the Students' Army Training Corps) 
 who have had at least a grammar school edu- 
 cation. From these detachments, exceptional 
 men who have collegiate standing may be 
 transferred to the Collegiate Section of the 
 Students' Army Training Corps. 
 
 It is sufficiently evident from the above 
 provisions that the Government desires that 
 every young man who is eligible should enter 
 the Students' Army Training Corps. Many 
 students will, however, be disqualified on 
 physical grounds who can be of great service 
 to their country outside of the army. It is 
 equally important that they should go to col- 
 lege and train themselves to give to the 
 Nation the full measure of their powers. 
 
 All students who expect to enroll in the 
 University of Colorade this year are asked to 
 communicate with the Registrar as soon as 
 possible. 
 
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