Vanderbilt University - Commodore Yearbook (Nashville, TN)

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ITNIVEHSITVS EW EIT drilled by Trained OTTicers. Cn Novem- ber IO, IQI7, dOcTOrs and nurses in The VanderbilT l-lOspiTal UniT leTT TOr acTive service amid The OvaTiOn OT a huge crOwd in Ryman AudiTOrium. ln The Tall OT I9 I8 VanderbilT UniversiTy became an armed camp. IT was deTailed by The UniTed STaTes Army as a uniT OT The STudenT Army Training Corps. Nearly 5OO men were enlisTed in This uniT. Kissam and Wesley l-lall were Turned inTO barracks, There was a canTeen, and The gymnasium served as The Y rOOm. All cOurses OT sTudy were subOrdinaTed TO The miliTary Training, and acTiviTies were aT a minimum. The naTure OT The presenT war, how- MCTYEIRE HALL ever, has changed The Type OT service demanded OT universiTy men and OT The universiTy iTselT. The Only semblance OT The armed camp On The campus This year is The drilling OT The company OT sTudenTs enlisTed in The Tennessee STaTe Guard. BeTOre Our enTry inTO The war This Time The gOvernmenT was able TO esTablish a sys- Tem OT Training camps which eliminaTes The nece-ssiTy OT Turning cOllege campuses inTO drill grounds. The Theory OT The Se- lecTive Service AcT has wrOughT The greaT- esT change. This assumes ThaT every man is willing and ready TO serve his cOunTry. The gOvernmenT calls men as They are needed. The TheOry is ThaT each individ- ,WOMEN'S DORMITORY

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...THE The declaraTion oT war by The UniTed STaTes on The Axis Tound VanderbilT eager To give Tull service To The counTry. VicTory in modern war depends upon highly specialized knowledge. Skilled Techni- cians hold The balance oT power. The army camps can Teach The arT oT war and develop The physical sTamina oT The men, buT The ToundaTion oT special- ized knowledge musT necessarily be laid in The col- lege and The universiTy. The emphasis oT educaTion aT VanderbilT has been changed, in The College of ArTs and Sciences as well as in The proTessional schools, To poinT Toward The needs oT war. All Through The hisTory oT The universiTy, Vander- bilT men have responded quickly To The call To colors. The aTmosphere on The campus This Time, however, Though Tully as sTrong and as loyal, has a somewhaT diTTerenT Torm oT expression. During The TirsT World War, a sTudenT was considered unpaTri- oTic, and liTe wiTh his Tellow sTudenTs was hard iT he had noT volunTeered Tor acTive duTy or was noT sTudying some proTession direcTly connecTed wiTh The pursuance oT war. ln The spring oT l9I7 base- ball and Track gave way To rniliTary drilling. The boys were organized inTo Tour companies and were Q CHARLES MADISON SARRATT, M.A. Dean of STudenTs BLANCHE HENRY CLARK, M.A., Ph.D. Dean of Women

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SCHOOLS OF MEDICINE AND NURSING ual can besT serve his counTry in The par- Ticular niche inTo which he TiTs besT. Uni- versiTy Training is as imporTanT as miliTary Training in The business oT scienTiTic de- sTrucTion. STudenTs are discouraged Trom enlisTing. They are urged To conTinue Their educaTion as long as possible in order To prepare Themselves Tor any Task Their counTry asks oT Them. VanderbilT sTudenTs are as eager and ready To serve Their counTry as They ever were. They are calmly waiTing Tor Their call To duTy. Consciousness on The parT oT The sTu- denTs and TaculTy oT The role They have To play in The emergency has quickened Their inTeresT in every Tield oT sTudy. OTher- wise The exTernal appearance oT The cam- E161 pus has changed very Ii+TIe. AT The end oT This year The universiTy has TelT no abrupT loss oT men To The armed Torces. lmprovemenTs oT The TaciliTies oT The uni- versiTy have increased. The magniTicenT JoinT UniversiTy Library was opened Tor The sTudenTs in The Tall. Three Nashville schools, Peabody, ScarriTT, and VanderbilT, raised one million dollars and The Carne- gie FoundaTion maTched This wiTh anoTher million Tor The building oT The library. The sTudenT bodies oT The Three schools have The mosT up-To-daTe TaciliTies possible To obTain To help Them in Their worlc. The compleTion oT McTyeire l-lall, The new dormiTory Tor women, and The Library made The addiTion oT Two buildings To The campus in a single year.