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Caption: Book - 16 Years (Edmund James)
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240 Sixteen Years at the University of Illinois ploy the services of several cadet officers. En 1917-18 seventeen such officers were appointed assistants in Military Science as against three in 1904. Expenditures on account of military have greatly increased in the last sixteen years. During the biennium 1913-15 approximately $227,920 was expended upon a new armory. To complete it will require at least $250,000 more. "For incidental expenses, military scholarships, for the Armory and other buildings to be used by the military, an amount about equal to the original federal grant ($600,000) to the University has been expended by the state to build up the Military Department of its University."40 In addition to this work in military tactics, which the Morrill Land Grant Act of 1862 expressly included as one of the subjects to be taught in the land grant colleges, the University contributed materially to the preparation undertaken by the federal government for active participation in the war. Upon the entrance of the United States into the War, the President of the University telegraphed to the Governor of the State offering the use of the scientific laboratories and other equipment of the University to the Federal Government. This offer was promptly acknowledged by the President of the United States, and various demands were made on the resources of the University in consequence. MILITARY UNITS AND COURSES Perhaps the University's most direct contribution toward this end has been in organizing units and courses specifically military in character. In 1915 a battery was organized among the faculty and students of the University which became known as Battery F of the First Regiment of Illinois Field Artillery. On June 20, 1916, the battery was ordered to entrain for Springfield from whence it moved to Texas. Almost exactly a year later, June 29, 1917, it again received orders from the Central Department directing immediate mobilization for active service Response of the University to the Call of War by Dr. B, E. PoweU University of Illinois Bulletin No. 52
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