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is that the training unit contains officer timher in sufficient quantity. A camp containing only 

 50 to 60 per cent of A and B men, as did the majority of the poorer camps listed above, must 

 have been seriously handicapped in the attempt to select men for commissions who should 

 measure up to the standard of mental ability of the officers already in the Army. To what 

 extent the officers commissioned from these training schools reflected the general status of their 

 schools can not be stated in the absence of figures regarding elimination from these camps. 



Table 170. — Comparison of officers' traininn camps — Peruntaqes in various grades hy examination a — 22 stations (third 



series) and Engineer reserve officers' training camp at Lee. 



Station. 



Engineer reserve officers' training camp 



1. Devens 



2. Grant 



3. Dodge 



4. Custer 



5. Sherman 



6. Taylor 



7. Meade 



8. Jackson 



9. Upton 



10. Dix 



11. Wadsworth 



Total..: 



12. Funston 



13. Lee 



14. Doniphan 



15. Travis 



16. Hancock 



17. McClellan 



18. Pike 



19. Gordon 



20. Bowie 



21. Stanley 



22. Oglethorpe 



Total 



Grand total 



Numbor of 

 cases. 



1,505 



711 

 51S 

 467 

 604 

 494 

 487 

 713 

 320 

 853 

 249 

 571 



5,987 



Percentage making grade — 



21.3 



525 

 588 

 422 

 489 

 478 

 458 

 631 

 589 

 477 

 3,541 

 1,108 



> 16, 798 



0.6 



20.5 

 19.9 

 23.8 

 24.3 

 29.8 

 25.7 

 33.7 

 33.8 

 31.3 

 30.9 

 29.2 



27.8 



30.7 

 35.9 

 37.0 

 39.5 

 40.2 

 42.6 

 43.8 

 47.2 

 48.2 

 50.6 

 52.2 



45.8 



37.2 



34.5 



29.8 

 32.2 

 33.4 

 39.2 

 32.4 

 41.3 

 30.4 

 31.3 

 33.3 

 37.4 

 31.8 



33.5 



40.2 

 33.8 

 38.4 

 36.8 

 36.4 

 33.0 

 32.8 

 29.6 

 36.1 

 30.9 

 30.6 



32.9 



44.2 



AorB. 



78.7 



49.7 

 47.3 

 42.8 

 36.2 

 37.7 

 32.6 

 35.6 

 34.7 

 34.9 

 32.1 



38.4 



28.8 

 29.8 

 24.4 

 23.3 

 23.2 

 24.2 

 23.3 

 22.9 

 15.3 

 17.8 

 16.3 



20.7 



79.5 

 79.5 

 76.2 

 75.4 

 70.1 

 73.9 

 66.0 

 66.0 

 68.2 

 69.5 

 70.6 



71.9 



69.0 

 63.6 

 62.8 

 60.1 

 59.6 

 57.2 

 56.1 

 52.5 

 51.4 

 48.7 

 46.9 



53.6 



1 Including Engineer officers' training camps. 



Differences between different types of training groups; Infantry, Artillery, and Engineer. — The 

 men of the 22 stations were assigned to companies or batteries according as they were training 

 for Infantry or Artillery. In addition to these camps the Engineer reserve officers' training camp, 

 established at Lee but drawing from other camps as well, afforded a very specific type of train- 

 ing. From 17 of the stations data were so reported that it was possible to make comparisons 

 of Artillery and Infantry training units with reference to the general mental caliber of the men 

 admitted to training. Table 171 and figure 26 show the percentages of each of these groups, 

 as well as of the Engineer candidate officers, making various grades. The order of excellence 

 here shown is (1) Engineer, (2) Artillery, (3) Infantry. The fact of a more rigid selection for the 

 two former groups is generally recognized, for specialized technical training was required for 

 the Engineering group, and a considerable amount of mathematics for the Artillery. The supe- 

 riority of the Artillery to the Infantry candidates appeared for each camp as well as for the 

 summarized data for all 17 camps. 



Table 171. — Percentages of candidate officers of different training groups in the various letter grades by examination a. 







