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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

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instruction must necessarily be modified along lines of direct military value. The War Department will prescribe or suggest such modifications. The schedule of purely military instruction will not preclude effective academic work. It will vary to some extent in accordance with the type of academic instruction, e. g., will be less in a medical school than in a college of liberal arts. 8. The primary purpose of the Students' Army Training Corps is to utilize the executive and teaching personnel and the physical equipment of the colleges to assist in the training of our new armies. This imposes great responsibilities on the colleges and at the same time creates an exceptional opportunity for service. The colleges are asked to devote the whole energy and educational power of the institution to the phases and lines of training desired by the Government. The problem is a new one and calls for inventiveness and adaptability as well as that spirit of cooperation which the colleges have already so abundantly shown. 9. The plan contemplates the making of contracts with all institutions having units of the Students' Army Training Corps for the housing, subsistence, and instruction of the student-soldiers to take effect on or about October 1, 1918. A separate statement of this date sets forth the procedure and principles governing these contrac ts

COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION AND SPECIAL TRAINING, B Y ROBERT I. REES

Colonel, General Staff Corps, Chairman WAR DEPARTMENT, Washington, D. C. August 28, 1918. To: The Presidents of all institutions authorized to maintain Students' Army Training Corps units. From: The Committee on Education and Special Training (General Staff).

DEAR SIRS:

A separate statement of this date sets forth the revised general plans for the Students' Army Training Corps. This letter states the basis for the contractual relations with the colleges. 1. Contract Basis. In view of the fact that the student soldiers will be on active duty status from the time they are inducted, on or about October 1, 1918, it is incumbent on the Government to assume the expense from that time, of their housing, subsistence and instruction. This is to be done through contracts with each institution. / / is, therefore, desired by the War Department that each institution authorized to maintain a Students* Army Traini'ag Corps unit, shall contract at the earliest possible date with the War Department, for the housing, subsistence and instruction of the soldiers assigned to it as members of the Students' Army Training Corps, such contracts to take effect as of October 1st, 1918, or such date about October 1st on which inductions are made. 2. Procedure for Making Contracts and Principles Governing Same. It is desired that every institution shall be on a contract basis with the War Department before October 1, 1918, and at the earliest possible date prior to that time. It is not possible, however, to conduct individual negotiations and make detailed contract arrangements with each of the more than three hundred institutions concerned. The