Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1920 [PAGE 110]

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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

[September 3,

(a) The basis of payment will be reimbursement for actual and necessary costs to the institutions for the services rendered to the Government in the maintenance and instruction of the soldiers, with the stated limitation as to cost of instruction. Contract price will be arrived at by agreement after careful study of the conditions in each case, in conference with authorities of the institution. (b) The War Department will have authority to specify and control the courses of instruction to be given by the institution. (c) The entity and power for usefullness of the institutions will be safe-guarded, so that when the contract ends the institutions shall be in condition to resume their functions of general education. (d) The teaching force will be preserved so far as practicable, and this matter so treated that its members shall feel that in changing to the special intensive work desired by the Government, they are rendering a vital and greatly needed service. (e) The Government will ask from the institutions a specific service, that is, the housing, subsistence and instruction along specified lines of a certain number of student soldiers. There will be no interference with the freedom of the institution in conducting other courses in the usual way. (f) The contract will be for a fixed term, probably nine months, subject to renewal for a further period on reasonable notice, on terms to be agreed upon and subject to cancellation on similar notice. 5. In view of the necessity of prompt action in establishing the temporary contract basis, you are requested to return in duplicate the enclosed "Request for Assignment of Soldiers" at the earliest possible date.

COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION AND SPECIAL TRAINING, By ROBERT I. R E E S

Colonel, General Staff Corps, Chairman

REQUEST

FOR ASSIGNMENT OF SOLDIERS OF STUDENTS' TRAINING CORPS, UNITED STATES ARMY, TO

ARMY

COLLEGE {UNIVERSITY) , a corporation under the

(Name of Institution)

laws of the State of hereby requests the War Department of the United States to assign to the institution soldiers of the United

(Estimated number in S. A. T. C. Unit)

States Army, members of the Students' Army Training Corps, on the following conditions: 1. Eligible students are to be inducted into the United States Army on their voluntary application, on or about October 1, 1918, and are forthwith to be assigned on active duty at the institution.