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Caption: Book - 16 Years (Edmund James)
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248 Sixteen Years at the University of Illinois When the Sehool opened, the Armory was placed at its disposal, and men were quartered as well as instructed there Later, the Y, M. C. A. building was equipped for a permanent barracks, and when it would no longer accommodate all the cadets, the Women's Residence Hall was turned over to them This was on November 15, just a few days after the building had been completed. On February 16,1918, the President presented to the Board of Trustees a request from the Federal Board for Vocational Education, asking the University to undertake the education of conscripted men from the army of the United States, as mechanicians. The Trustees gave him authority to co-operate with the Federal Board in this matter, and it was immediately announced that the University would undertake to provide training in any mechanical line which the government desired, for five thousand men. This action on the part of the University resulted in the establishment of the Students Army Training Corps in the autumn of 1918. In addition to the instruction already mentioned, several so-called war oourses were introduced during the second semester of 1917-18, and of these perhaps the largest was that given in Red Cross work. The course extended from April 23, to June 1, and enrolled 140 students. It was conducted by a registered Bed Cross nurse, by members of the faculty, and by practising physicians, and included instruction in first aid, surgical supplies, home nursing, field problems and dietetics.48 STUDENTS' ARMY TRAINING CORPS49 The Students' Army Training Corps was organized by the Committee on Education and Special Training, a committee of the "War Department, composed of army officers and civilian educators, created for the purpose of educating and training men for service in the United States Army. Units of the S. A, T. C. were established in five hundred and fifty universities, colleges, and schools throughout the United States. The mini"Response of the University to the Call of War by Dr. B. E. Powell, University of Illinois Bulletin No. 52 "Annual Begister, 1918-19, p. 425
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