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dents, which course when entered upon by any student shall, as regards such student, 

 be a prerequisite for graduation, establish and maintain at such institution one or more 

 units of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps: Provided, That no such unit shall be 

 established or maintained at any such institution until an officer of the Army shall 

 have been detailed as professor of military science and tactics, nor until such institu- 

 tion shall maintain under military instruction at least one hundred physically fit male 

 students. 



Sec. 43. The Secretary of War is hereby authorized to prescribe standard courses of 

 theoretical and practical military training for units of the Reserve Officers' Training 

 Corps, and no unit of the senior division shall be organized or maintained at any educa- 

 tional institution the authorities of wliich fail or neglect to adopt into their curriculum 

 the prescribed courses of military training for the senior division or to devote at least 

 an average of three hours per week per academic year to such military training; and no 

 unit of the junior division shall be organized or maintained at any educational institu- 

 tion the authorities of which fail or neglect to adopt into their curriculum the pre- 

 scribed courses of military training for the junior division, or to devote at least an 

 average of three hours per week per academic year to such military training. 



Sec. 44. Eligibility to membership in the Reserve Officers' Training Corps shall be 

 limited to students of institutions in wliich units of such corps may be established who 

 are citizens of the United States, who are not less than fourteen years of age, and whose 

 bodily condition indicates that they are physically fit to perform military duty, or will 

 be so upon arrival at military age. 



Sec. 45. The President is hereby authorized to detail such numbers of officers of the 

 Army, either active or retired, not above the grade of colonel, as may be necessary,' for 

 duty as professors and assistant professors of military science and tactics at institutions 

 where one or more units of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps are maintained ; but 

 the total number of active officers so detailed at educational institutions shall not 

 exceed three hundred, and no active officer shall be so detailed who has not had five 

 years' commissioned service in the Army. In time of peace retired officers shall not 

 be detailed under the pro\dsions of tliis section without their consent. Retired officers 

 below the grade of lieutenant colonel so detailed shall receive the full pay and allow- 

 ances of their grade, and retired officers above the grade of major so detailed shall 

 receive the same pay and allowances as a retired major would receive under a like 

 detail. No detail of .officers on the active list of the Regular Army under the provi- 

 sions of this section shall extend for more than four years. 



Sec. 46. The President is hereby authorized to detail for duty at institutions where 

 one or more units of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps are maintained such number 

 of enlisted men, either active or retired or of the Regular Army Reserve, as he may 

 deem necessary, but the number of active noncommissioned officers so detailed shall 

 not exceed five hundred, and all active noncommissioned officers so detailed shall be 

 additional in their respective grades to those otherwise authorized for the Army. 

 Retired enlisted men or members of the Regular Army Reserve shall not be detailed 

 under the provisions of tliis section without their consent. Wliile so detailed they 

 shall receive active pay and allowances. 



Sec. 47. The Secretary of War, under such regulations as he may prescribe, is hereby 

 authorized to issue to institutions at which one or more units of the Reserve Officers' 

 Training Corps are maintained such public animals, arms, uniforms, equipment, and 

 means of transportation as he may deem necessary, and to forage at the expense of the 

 United States public animals so issued. He shall require from each institution to wliich 

 property of the United States is issued a bond in the value of the property issued for 

 the care and safe-keeping thereof, and for its return when required. 



Sec. 48. The Secretary of War is hereby authorized to maintain camps for the fur- 

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