Military Instruction at the Univer-
sity of Wisconsin and the War
I IERE has becn estuhlihed at this lni ersit% an
Infantrv Unit, Senior 1)iviion, Reserve Officers'
Iraining Corps, the regulations and instructions
for which are contained in General Order No. 49,
ar Department, Washington, D. C., Sept. 20, 191(.
The primary object for the establishing of this unit is to
qualify by systematic and standard methods of training,
students at this Univcrsity for reserve officers in the army
of the United States, and as leaders of our troops in this
great world war and future emergencies. It is at insti-
tutionssuch as this that the War Department \ill have to
look for officers' material for the newly orainized troops
and it is at such institutions as this that the best qualified
material will be found.
The men who attended the first training camps for off-
cers were not men who were required to have had pre-
vious military training,. but were men from civil life who
had good reputations and standing, and it was found that
the college men with brains and previous military training
made the better leaders of men.
It has been found in all the camps that the drafted men
who are college men and who took, wxhile at college, the
required military training, are far superior to the officers
who received their commissions in the citizens' training
camps as firstorganized and whohad no preioIstraining.
These university men form the only sorce of supply
for the reserve offiers who will undoubtedly lead our
troops in battle.
The number of military trained students of thi LIniver-
sity who have entered the service, is, I amsure, higher in
proportion to attendance than any other-similar institu-
tion in the country.
The forty-seven candidates now at the 'Ihird Olcers'
Training Camp from this Ini\crsity are men of excellent
ability as leaders of men and will without qiestion be
commissioned in the t nited States Army as leaders of
our troops.

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