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The Colleges and Schools DISTRIBUTION THRUOUT THE DIFFERENT ARMS OF THE SERVICE ARMY . NAVT . • MARINES 261 3,599 350 43 90.1% 8.8% 1.1% DISTRIBUTION THRUOUT THE VARIOUS BRANCHES ARMY Ambulance Corps Aviation Corps Cavalry Coast Artillery Engineering Corps Field Artillery Gas Defense Service Infantry Total NAVY 117 582 18 160 296 364 24 632 Machine Gun Corps Medical Corps Musicians Officers' Schools Ordnance Corps Quartermaster Corps Signal Corps Branch Unknown 39 173 15 207 175 173 107 477 3,599 Radio Corps Other Branches Officers' Schools Total MARINES 48 270 32 350 43 Grand Total 3,992 How liberally Illinois faculty and students subscribed to the Government Loans and the War Relief campaigns, may be judged from the following table which lists the most important of those drives conducted in the University district between April, 1917 and June, 1919. It is interesting to note that the University of Illinois held third place among ten representative institutions thruout the country in its subscription to the Third Liberty Loan. In total subscriptions it was surpassed by Chicago and Yale. However, its faculty subscription not only doubled that of the Chicago faculty but exceeded the faculty subscription in each of the other institutions.
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