Indiana University - Arbutus Yearbook (Bloomington, IN)

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Pres. Brv n Tells Soldiers of Duty anything else on the war program of the government. This change followed the change in the nation ' s legislation reducing the draft age to eighteen years, thereby including most of the college men of the country. The new plan of the government was announced at a meeting of the college presidents held at Fort Sheridan, August 30 and 31. The plan was announced by Lieutenant-Colonel Robert I. Rees, chair- man of the War Department ' s Committee on Education and Special Training. According to this plan the go ' ernment was to practically take over for military purposes the organization and ecjuipment of every college I. U. Service Flag Waves Over Troops Pagu Fifteen

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RaISIXG the CciLORS At the end of this first R. O. T. C. Camp, the War Department decided to inaugurate a second camp under the name of the Student ' s Army Training Corps. This camp was also held at Fort Sheridan and to it Indiana sent sixty students and ei ht members of the faculty. Dur- ing this camp intense training and instrtiction was given to the candi- dates and they were taught the most advanced principles of modern tactics. At the close of the Student ' s Army Training Corps Camp, twenty-three Indiana men were commissioned as second lieutenants. These men were assigned to various colleges and camps as instructors. I3uring this training camp at Fort Sheridan the government made the sweeping change in its plans that affected the colleges more than Ca?t. Dalton Readimi the Oath

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Delta Tau House — Barracks No. i able to muster a sufficient number of students for military drill. This surrender on the part of the colleges to the government control was to be voluntary, and the relation between the government and the college was to be a matter of contract. A duty rested upon the colleges to provide suitable barracks and subsistence for the members of the Stu- dent ' s Army Training Corps, in addition to academic instruction, the colleges to be reimbursed as agreed upon in the contract with the giovernment. s Page Sixteen