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Caption: Book - 16 Years (Edmund James)
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The Colleges and Schools 245 versity. As many as two hundred fifty persons have been enrolled in one or more courses in a single year. 14. T H E MILITARY DEPARTMENT INCLUDING ALSO T H E UNIVERSITY'S PART IN THE WAR In 1904-5 the military department of the University registered a total of 844 men, of whom 41 were officers. There was one regiment of infantry, composed of field staff band, and ten companies. There was also an artillery company. The military department of the University registered a total of 2,217 students in 1915-16, 2,279 in 1916-17, 1,285 in 1917-18, 3,385, in 1918-19, and 1,407 in 1919-20. During 1915-16 and the first semester of 1916-17 the military organization consisted of two regiments of infantry, composed of twelve companies each; a foot battery of artillery, a signal company, an engineer company, a hospital company, two bands, a trumpet and drum corps, and a reserve band. At the beginning of the second semester of 1916-17 an infantry unit, a signal unit and an engineer unit of the Senior Division, Eeserve Officers' Training Corps, were established in accordance with the National Defense Act of June 3, 1916. The present organization is therefore as follows: One infantry unit, Senior Division, R. 0. T. C , composed of two regiments of three battalions of four companies each, two headquarters companies, two supply companies and two machine gun companies; a band for each regiment and a reserve band; one signal unit, Senior Division, R. 0. T. C, consisting of one company; and one engineer unit, Senior Division, R. 0, T. C , consisting of one company. Up to and including the year 1915-16 there was but one commissioned officer of the United States Army stationed at the University. In 1916-17 there were five commissioned officers, three non-commissioned officers from the active list and four retired non-commissioned officers assigned to duty here. Shortly after the declaration of war all of these officers except those upon the retired list were ordered to various training camps. In addition to the enlarged personnel of United States officers the Military Department has found it necessary to em- •JM
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