NEW PLAN FOR COLLEGE CORPS

If the latest announcement of the War Department concerning the work of the college R. O. T. C.'s next year, as reprinted in another column from yesterday's Boston papers, brings practical results, it will be a cause of general satisfaction. By this plan, every college with an enrollment of over 100 will have a training unit, recognized, equipped, and officered by the War Department. Students will not be required to join, but when they do they will be regularly enlisted and subject to the call of the President. Only the gravest emergency, however, will bring a call before an undergraduate reaches the age of twenty-one.

This step has a double value to the colleges of the country. In two-thirds of them, where, for reasons often of lack of equipment or officers, no military unit has been established, every opportunity will now be given to train an efficient corps. In addition, the R. O. T. C.'s that have already been established will be brought into more perfect co-ordination; the War Department will know just what results it wants from each one, and the best way to obtain these results. As the graduates of the R. O. T. C.'s will be trained uniformly everywhere, officers can be made of them more quickly and efficienly than has heretofore been the case.

The establishment of this system can be taken by the colleges as a recognition of work well done. The college R.O.T.C.'s have at last been accepted as part of the regular military forces of the country. As a pioneer in establishing a training corps, the University may feel especially gratified at this recognition of the nation's need of the colleges.