PRESIDENTS TO DISCUSS TRAINING

Presidents of nineteen colleges and universities have been called in conference by the War Department preparatory to the establishment of systematic methods for training reserve officers of the United States Army in those institutions. They will meet at the Army War College in Washington Tuesday for discussion with the Army General Staff of military courses to be organized in colleges and universities. It will also be debated how the greatest benefic can be obtained from Plattsburg and other military camps.

It has been estimated that the army must maintain a crops of 50,000 partially trained junior officers to facilitate organization of an adequate military force should the nation have war with a power capable of attempting invasion. The main source of supply for these officers would be institutions with approved military courses.

Officials expected to attend the conference include President Lowell, President Hadley of Yale, Dr. J. E. Raycrort, Princeton; President Edward J. James of Illinois; President R. A. Garfield of Williams, and President J. G. Schurman of Cornell.