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s need< ! trained men. To supply this n -d, sp< air busin< lization and o\ ition \ :re >nducl 1 durii * > April 23 I Jim 8 to prepare students foi m >rdnan< d reserve corp* md for the quartermaster's enlisted r< ei A »ne hundred and t\\ nty udents enroll I for th Ot whom wen mptly 1 listed in the I ! servic p 1 tl < ompleti< 1 of the work. Dui : the same period 1 >urses in Red Cross work wer ;u iversity for which die e cr lit was ranted. One hundred rid forty tudents completed the course-. 'Die work v as conduct 1 by a n -tered 1\ 1 Cr ss nures, by members of the faculty and 1 pr rig physicians. It included instructi n in first aid. urgical supplii home nursing, field problems and dietetics. C le of the most imj >rtant service- now being c ntributed b; the University for the conduct of the war is the preparation in its laboratory •:" certain chemicals which are indispensable for the manu"acture of munition . nickel steels for projectile-, etc., and which—in me inst net at least—can not be procured from other source-. Notably among the--; chemicals of which there is a shorta e is dimethvlgloxime which is now being supplied from the University of Illinois laboratories in sufficient quantities to meet all demands of the whoh c untrv. Dr. Roger .Adam- of the division of Organic Chemistry with Toup graduate students is engaged in preparing other chemic as well—-ome seventy-five in number—that are being sold to as m "i\ a fifteen different university laboratories, to the Bureau of Chemistr) • W hington. and to large distributing h ^ and mmcivial firms, ince June 30. thr : aditional ambulance units, one hundred d men in all, recruited from [Uinois \lumni and students, have left th 'nivei ity for Allentown, Pa. t > go into an army ti< ng np prior to tl ir departun for "Somewhere in France", En in tb<- ordnanc md quarterma tei reserve corps number al e\ I

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ntributed dii tlv for tbe furtherance of tbe war up to Jun< • 191;