College Recreates Course In Officers' Training Corps

Advanced Army Reserve Officers' Training in its pre-war form will be reinstated in the academic curriculum starting next term, Dean Buck announced this week. Its two-fold purpose now will be to provide junior officers for the post war army and to expand the training corps organization in anticipation of post war needs.

The Advanced Course has been described as a Field Artillery Unit, but the first year interim instruction will emphasize basic infantry training. The program of the course calls for five hours of military instruction per week for the full academic year.

The status of those enrolled in the course will be strictly civilian. But, according to Colonel Thomas Q. Donaldson, Jr., lately appointed Professor of Military Science and Tactics at the University, they will be under contract to the government.

Contract Leads to Gold Bar

Under the contract the student will agree to complete the advanced course and attend a field camp for a specified period. At the conclusion of the training he will be appointed as a second lieutenant in the reserve corps of the field artillery.

Eligibility for enrollment will include the following qualifications: The applicant must be between nineteen and twenty-six years of age, must meet the physical standards, must have a GCT rating of 110, and must have two years before completion on his undergraduate work at the college.

Pay Inducement Stressed

Donaldson stresses many advantages offered to students in the course. A monetary allowance of $20 monthly, equal to standard garrison subsistence pay will be paid during the months of the course session. While at camp the students will receive the pay of the seventh enlisted grade, and will be furnished a travel allowance to get there.

In addition uniforms and text books will be supplied, and formally enrolled members of the course will be exempt from Selective Service Induction.

Special inducements have been extended to veterans. Thost who hold honorable discharges or who are on inactive reserve status can get credit for all or parts of the basic course. Six months or more active duty yields credit for the first year basic training, and any service in the armed forces for over a year gives credit for the entire basic course.