Vanderbilt University - Commodore Yearbook (Nashville, TN)

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f 2 7 1 t 1 nge student Army i i i G HE vicissitudes of war have been many, and Vanderbilfs part in it has been by no means confined to the deeds of her sons on the battle fields. She has known service, it is true, in the work of faculty and students, in depleted ranks at home and full J classes in Franceg but no act of patriotism surpasses that of the fall of l9lS, when she threw her doors open to a unit of alta QQQQQ the Student Army Training Corps. The Vanderbilt unit was only one of many such organizations established by the government in all the big colleges and universities of the United States. . i Its purpose was to combine college and military training for boys in the new draft between the ages of eighteen and twenty-one who were expected to be called into the regular army by June. It was thought that by utilizing the resources of the colleges the government could conserve much needed funds and the colleges be supplied with students who would otherwise be put in army training camps. ln accordance with this plan, on October the hrst, in Vanderbilt chapel, nearly tive hundred men took the oath of allegiance to the United States of America, and became a part of the United States Army. It was an impressive sight, and one not soon to be liorgoten in Vanderbilt annals. From this time on Vanderbilt was no longer the home of academic calm and university tradition. Kissam and Wesley Halls were made into army barracks: a canteen was openedg the gymnasium was turned into a Y roomy the sound of men drilling broke the stillness of the early

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