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12. About 25 to 50 selected enlisted men, to work under the Division of Psychology, will be kept at your camp 

 under instruction therefor. Some of them will be sent with a view to being tried out as to their fitness for appoint- 

 ment as officers of the Sanitary Corps under the Division of Psychology. All should be given such part of the basic 

 course for enlisted men, including the physical, military, and professional, as might be of advantage to them in their 

 special service with psychologists. 



Their further special training under the Psychology Division will be outlined by the representative of that 

 division on your staff of instructors subject to your approval. They should be organized as a separate company under 

 officers of the Sanitary Corps serving under the Division of Psychology. . 



13. Receipt of this letter to be acknowledged. 



E. L. Munson, 

 Colonel, Medical Corps. 



Subsequently the Division of Psychology arranged also for a group of approximately 

 50 enlisted men to report at the medical officers' training camp, Fort Oglethorpe, and forwarded 

 a syllabus of a course in military psychology and the necessary supplies. Capt. William S. 

 Foster was appointed senior instructor in charge. In August, 1918, he was succeeded by 

 Lieut. John E. Anderson. 



The history of the School for Military Psychology is recorded in the following official 

 reports of the senior instructors: 



On January 23, 1918, Capt. William S. Foster, Sanitary Corps, National Army, was ordered to report to the com- 

 mandant for duty as instructor in the school. While awaiting the arrival of student officers and men he was assigned 

 to Company 16 of the medical officers' training group, for intensive military training. On February 4, 1918, officers 

 and enlisted men detailed for instruction began to arrive. No barracks for the use of additional companies were at 

 that time available, so that, until a sufficient number of officers to form a company of 25 to 30 should arrive, commis- 

 sioned psychologists were assigned to companies 13, 14, 15, and 16, which were already formed from officers of the 

 medical department. Similarly, until facilities and adequate personnel for the formation of a company of enlisted 

 psychologists were obtained, these men were assigned to the Camp Greenleaf Infirmary Detachment. On February 8, 

 22 commissioned psychologists, then in camp, together with certain other officers of the sanitary and veterinary corps, 

 were combined in company 15. Until February 16, when the psychological officers of this company became com- 

 pany 28, battalion VII, M. O. T. O, and moved to a section of the camp where facilities for special training were 

 available, commissioned psychologists received the same training as that given regularly to medical officers. [The 

 first group of commissioned psychologists, company 28, is shown in pi. 1.] 



On March 7 the enlisted psychologists, then numbering 49, were moved from the infirmary to the tents of the 

 recruit section of the division of hospitals and sanitary trains, battalion XIV, and formed company F of that battalion. 

 In addition to their military training, special psychological training for these soldiers was begun at that time. On 

 April 20 company F became psychological company 1, and together with the commissioned psychologists of company 28, 

 was moved to more commodious quarters, formerly occupied by base and field hospitals. On June 20 a building, 

 specially constructed for psychological examining, was completed and both groups of psychologists were consolidated 

 and quartered, the officers in the psychological building itself and the enlisted men in the near-by barracks of the 

 motor sanitary units in Camp Greenleaf annex. Formal instruction in military psychology was discontinued August 1, 

 1918. [The first group of enlisted men in training for psychological service, company F, is shown in pi. 2.] 



The content of instruction followed closely the outline given in Gen. Munson's letter to the commandant, estab- 

 lishing the school (see above). 



The military instruction for enlisted psychologists followed as closely as possible that given to the officers, save 

 that in certain cases, such as army regulations and manual of the medical department, abbreviations and substitutions 

 were made, and parts of Mason's Handbook for the Sanitary Troops were used as a text. This instruction was con- 

 ducted by officers of the school. 



The first lectures were given in a lecture room formed by throwing together rooms in former officers' quarters. 

 Later mess halls, and yet later a lecturer's table in the open air, before an amphitheatre under the trees, were used, 

 until in May a special psychological building became available. This building is located centrally in Camp Greenleaf, 

 near the headquarters of the division of hospitals and sanitary trains. It is of two stories, 120 by 30 feet. On the 

 lower floor of the building is a large room, with benches and lap boards for the use of about 200 men in the alpha group 

 examination. At the opposite end of the building is a similar room, fitted with benches, tables, shelves, and special 

 lighting arrangements for the beta group examination, for about 100 illiterates and foreigners. Between these two 

 rooms is a hallway, with a drinking fountain and supply room, which is used also as a library and is fitted with 

 shelves and counter. Above the beta room is a well-lighted scoring room, provided with tables, chairs, and shelves 

 and sufficiently large to accommodate 50 clerks and scorers. The remainder of the upper floor consists of five rooms 

 for individual examining, two offices, a record room, a supply room, two lavatories, and four rooms which serve as quar- 

 ters for the commissioned examining staff. 



