JuLy 19, 1918] 
willingness to establish corps among their stu- 
dents. 
‘The purpose of the new plan, as shown in the 
new instructions, is to develop as a great mili- 
tary asset the large body of young men in the 
colleges. This will be accomplished by provid- 
ing efficient military instruction under the 
supervision of the War Department for stu- 
dents in all colleges enrolling the required 
minimum of students. In order to receive this 
instruction, all students over eighteen years of 
age must volunteer and enlist in the army of 
the United States. 
Only colleges which can provide an enroll- 
ment of 100 or more able-bodied students over 
eighteen years will be entitled to the course. 
The intention is to extend the system of in- 
struction for college students to the largest 
practicable extent in view of the available sup- 
ply of officers and equipment. To be classified 
as one of the institutions of college grade to 
which the privilege of maintaining a Students’ 
Army Training Corps unit is extended, an in- 
stitution must require for admission to its 
regular curricula graduation from a standard 
secondary school or an equivalent; must pro- 
vide general collegiate or professional curricula 
covering at least two years of not less than 33 
weeks each; and must be carried in the lists of 
higher institutions prepared by the United 
States Commissioner of Education. 
Institutions of college grade will include, 
providing all other conditions are met: Colleges 
of arts and sciences; engineering schools; 
schools of mines; agricultural colleges; col- 
leges of pharmacy, veterinary, medicine; teach- 
ers’ colleges, and law, medical, dental, gradu- 
ate and normal schools; junior colleges and 
technical institutions. Students enrolled in 
preparatory departments of these schools and 
colleges can not at present be considered elig- 
ible for enlistment in the units, and such stu- 
dents can not be counted by college authori- 
ties in reckoning the 100 able-bodied students 
for a military training unit. 
The character of the training will depend on 
the kind of training unit which is organized in 
the particular institution. The standard time 
to be allotted to military work will be 10 hours 
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per week during the college year supplemented 
by six weeks of intensive training in a sum- 
mer camp. The 10 hours a week will not in- 
volve the hours of outdoor work in drill. 
The summer camps will be an important fea- 
ture of the system. These will be active for 
six weeks, and there will be an intensive and 
rigid course of instruction under experienced 
officers. 
The plan will provide approximately 650 
hours of military work per annum. It is ex- 
pected that this will qualify a considerable . 
percentage of the students to enter officers’ 
training camps on being called to the colors, 
and a large percentage of the remainder to 
serve aS noncommissioned officers. 
Officer instructors and noncommissioned 
officer instructors will be provided by the War 
Department when available. Officers return- 
ing from overseas and unfit for further field 
service will be utilized. The government will 
supply the uniforms and equipment whenever 
available. 
The Students’ Army Training Corps will be 
supervised and controlled by the training and 
instruction branch, war plans division of the 
General Staff, in accordance with the instruc- 
tions of the Chief of Staff. An advisory board 
to this committee, representing educational in- 
terests, has already been appointed by the Sec- 
retary of War. This will insure the closest 
cooperation between the War Department and 
the colleges. 
GUARDING SOLDIERS’ CAMPS AGAINST FLIES 
AND MOSQUITOES 
Tue following statement is authorized by 
the War Department from the Surgeon Gen- 
eral’s office: 
To guard troops stationed in camps and can- 
tonments from disease carried by mosquitoes 
and flies, the medical department of the Army 
has installed a system of prevention which is 
safeguarding not only the soldiers but also 
civilians living in the neighborhood of training 
camps. 
There is attached to each camp a division 
surgeon who is responsible for the health of 
the camp. Assisting him is a sanitary in- 
spector who has the assistance of a sanitary 
