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Caption: Book - 16 Years (Edmund James)
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The Colleges and Schools 249 mum number of students required was two hundred, and the maximum thirty-five hundred. The corps was divided into two sections, class A, those who received an academic education, and class B, those who received instruction in mechanical trades. The necessary educational requirements for class A students was a certificate of graduation from some high school of merit and for class B students a completion of the eight grades in grammar school. The S. A. T. C. Unit established at the University of Illinois was class A entirely. I t was organized October 1, 1918, and work started immediately. The induction of the men into the service began October 6, 1918. The Unit was organized into fifteen companies of two hundred men each, and eleven hours weekly were devoted to military drill and instruction. The men were fully equipped, and regularly enlisted in the United States Army. They were under strict military discipline at all times. The study was supervised by the military authorities and was made compulsory. In order to subsist and quarter such a large number of men, the University of Illinois went to great expense in completely flooring the Armory and installing a modern kitchen which contained the most improved equipment, such as steam tables, ranges, boilers, meat and bread slicers, and electric dish-washers. This work was delayed somewhat on account of embargoes at that time on the transportation of materials, but through persistence and untiring energy on the part of the University Executive Department every obstacle was overcome and this vast undertaking began to function in time to take care of the men as rapidly as they reported. There were twenty-six hundred students enrolled in the Army section, four hundred in the Navy section, in Urbana, and three hundred and eighty-five in the University of Illinois College of Medicine at Chicago. The academic courses were divided into groups and the curriculum arranged so as to cover subjects of value to the various arms of the service, and the men could elect the group or course of study desired. Those eligible for admission into the S. A. T. C. had to be over eighteen years of ago and under twenty-one. Induction
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