Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 201, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 September 1918 — STUDENTS TO BE INDUCTED INTO REGULAR ARMY [ARTICLE]

STUDENTS TO BE INDUCTED INTO REGULAR ARMY

\ ■ - I Changes of the most sweeping and radical nature in the history of Purdue university, as well as all the other colleges and universities in the country, will come about in the next month, when the new organization set forth by the war department and concurred in hy representatives of the colleges at meetings held last Saturday will be put into effect. President Winthrop E. Stone and Major Frank B. Andrus have just returned from the meeting held at Fort Sheridan Saturday, at which more than three hundred representatives from all the colleges in twentyfive states ip the middle west, having an enrollment of more than 100 male students, from the Gulf of Mexico to Canada were present to receive and discuss the plans of education to be offered the college men who come within the new draft ages. Col. Robert I. Rees, general staff corps, representing the war department, explained the new regulations, and the representatives present manifested a most splendid spint in their concurrence with the plans set forth regarding the status of the colleges and college students given them by the war department. The new regulations provide that all college students will be inducted into military service, will be equipped with uniforms and -placed under the regular army routine, and will receive the regular soldier’s pay of S3O a month. The colleges will make contracts with the war department to house, feed and instruct the men in academic, scientific and technical branches, and a number of military men will be detailed to direct the military training of the students. This means that at Purdue there will be barracks,' kitchens, baths, latrines, and so on erected for the men, who will be in the regular army service, subject to call at any time. The students of draft age will all live in the barracks, and will live according to regular military rules. They will begin their regular routine at 5:30 o’clock in the morning, and will be required to be in their quarters at taps, at 9:30 o’clock in the evening, and there will be the regular army work in drill, guard mounting, and other military exercises.