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MILITARY TRAINING AT COLLEGES Two valuable ends will be attained by the carry ¬ ing through of the project of providing military training for the boys at the colleges of the country during the coming scholastic year A foundation will ln laid for meeting the demand for officers of the army a demand which will grow with each month we are at war and the boys who should be in the colleges will be found there thereNothing Nothing is more natural than that boys between the ages of eighteen and twentyone should be attracted these day more by uniforms than by books Seeing former college mates little older than themselves serving in the army or the navy they feel it a good deal of a hardship that a slight difference in years should keep them on the side lines of the great game The contention that their first duty to the nation is to carry on at college does not make strong appeal to them And yet that is their first and paramount duty dutyTo To meet their desires and at the same time pre ¬ pare them for the part each must play when his time comes the War Department has provided for military training under Its supervision in every college having a male enrollment of one hundred or inon students The training will be under the di ¬ rection so far as is possible of retired officers of thi army Students between eighteen and twenty one years of age physically qualified for military service will be regularly enrolled as members of the National Army having the status of privates on furlough without pay During the summer vacation eaili soldier student will receive six weeks of in ¬ tensive military instruction instructionUnder Under this scheme the student not only will feel that hi is doing his part as a member of the countrys military organization but also without militating against his studies will know that he is receiving the training which will equip him for tlie duty of a soldier in active service when the call to active service comes The greater value of the project lies however in its being a practical in ¬ surance against one of the greatest evils that war could bring the cutting off of the nations sup lily of educated youth New York Herald
