MILITARY SCIENCE 425

RESERVE OFFICERS’ TRAINING CORPS

The Department of Military Science comprises Infantry and Signal
Corps units of the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps, organized under the
National Defense Act of June 3, 1916. This act provides for a progressive
course of military training consisting of two years of basic and two years
of advanced work. Three hours a week are required in the basic course and
five in the advanced course.

Upon completion of the sophomore year of the basic course, those stu-
dents who are selected for further military training by the President of the
University and the Commandant may elect to take the work of the advanced
course. This necessitates a written agreement on the part of the student
that he will continue the work, taking it five hours a week for two years,
and attend one summer camp of not more than six weeks’ duration.

Upon the execution of this agreement, the War Department furnishes
to members of the advanced course, in addition to uniforms and equipment,
commutation of subsistence at the rate of about $9 a month for twenty-one
months. Students enrolling in the advanced course must begin the work in
such course at least two years prior to normal completion of the students’
academic course, save in exceptional cases, and then only upon the fulfill-
ment of certain conditions. Students who once begin either the basic or
advanced course and later withdraw from college are under no obligation to
the government whatever, unless they re-enter this institution at a later
date, in which case they are required to continue their military science
course.

Students are paid at the rate of $21 a month while attending advanced
course camps. All transportation to and from the camp and the expenses
at camp are paid by the government.

Upon satisfactory completion of the advanced course, including the
prescribed camp training, graduates who are twenty-one years of age are
eligible for appointment by the President of the United States as members
of the Officers’ Reserve Corps, United States Army. Such graduates who
are not yet twenty-one years of age are given certificates of eligibility for
a commission. Upon reaching the age of twenty-one, these students are
commissioned as Second Lieutenants, Officers’ Reserve Corps, without any
mental or physical examination.

UNIFORMS

Basic course students make one deposit of $10.00 upon beginning the
course. Upon completion of the two-year course each student is refunded
$5.00 and is permitted to retain his uniform. There is no additional cost,
all arms and equipment being furnished by the Federal Government. Each
advanced course student deposits $7.50 and in return receives an excellent
uniform suitable for wear after he receives his commission in the Reserve
Corps. He retains this uniform upon completion of the course.

PERSONNEL AND EQUIPMENT

The instruction in the Department of Military Science is conducted by
a corps of five Regular Army officers selected by the War Department from
the Infantry and Signal Corps and, in addition, selected non-commissioned

officers of these branches, highly trained in their profession. A consider-
able amount of equipment has been provided by the Federal Government in
order that instruction may be both complete and practical.