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COLLEGES MAKE APPLICATIONS

Signify Intention to Establish Units Reserve Corps.

According to official bulletins issued the War Department, the following colleges and universities have made application for the establishment of units of the Reserve Officers Training Corps Rutgers College, New Brunswick, N. J. University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyo. University of Nevada, Reno, Nev.; University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Ark University of Maine, Orono, Me.; St. John's College, Annapolis, Md.; College of St. Thomas, St. Paul, Minn.; The Citadel, Charleston, S. C.; Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas, College Station, Tex.; Gulf Coast Military Academy, Gulfport, Miss.; Georgia Milliar College, Milledgeville, Ga.; State College of Washington, Pullman, Wash.; Oklahoma Agricultural and Mechanical College Stillwater, Okla.

The authorities of these institution have agreed "to establish and maintain a two-years' compulsory course of military training as a minimum for their physically-fit male students, which course when entered upon by any student shall as regards such student, be a prerequisite for graduation, to allot a minister of an average of three hours per week per academic year to military training and instruction, and to use their endeavors to promote its interests."

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