VOLUME XI

The outstanding development of the University this fall is the formation of a

The

S. A. T. C. at Chicago

unit of the Students' Army Training Corps, usually referred to as the S. A. T. C. This corps, which fairly credible rumor declares to have originated. in the brain of Charles Riborg Mann, formerly professor of physics here, but now in government service in Washington, has organized units at more than four hundred colleges and nuiversities in the country.

Every member of the S. A. T. C. lives in barracks, is paid $30 a month by the government, and is under military discipline twenty-four hours a day, like all other privates. In addition, his tuition is paid by the government and he must spend at least fourteen hours a week in the classroom or laboratory (two hours of laboratory work counting for one of classroom work). At irregular intervals the government assigns selected men elsewhere-the best to officers' training camps; others to vocational employment, to noncommissioned officers' schools, or as privates in cantonments. The choice will be made on the basis of attainment or lack of it, in both military and academic work.

Any man in class 1A in the September 12 draft is eligible if he has a high school education or its equivalent. Chicago's quota was thirteen hundred in the army and two hundred in the navy. These figures have not been reached. Exactly how many men there are in each branch has not yet been officially given out. Popular estimate says about eleven hundred in one and 125 in the other.

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The enormous machine was bound to start with a creak, and there have been many hitches. Some men practically wasted October in their efforts to get inducted. The class schedule has been very difficult to adjust. Conflict between military requirements and class reuqirements could not altogether be avoided, especially with the rest of the University continuing uninterrupted. Some gems of phrase have circulated, as for example the remark of one lieutenant to a boy who asked for ten minutes to consult his dean: "To h-1 with your dean; the army is your dean now." But on the whole the work, both military

and academic, has been amazingly efficient.

Of alumni killed in action, the deaths of two particularly have attracted wide at

Shull and Goettler

tention-1st Lieutenant Laurens Shull of the 26th Division, the most famous in the army because of its position at Chateau Thierry, and Captain Harold Goettler of the air service. Shull died from wounds in August, Goettler was killed in October while relieving the besieged American company that was surrounded and besieged in the Argonne, and was subsequently rescued. Shull and Goettler were the wellknown all-western tackles on the 1914 football team. Many a time they headed attacks together on the football field. In death they are not divided.

Since the foregoing was written the following communication has come from the War Department:

"The Distinguished Service Cross has been posthumously given to Lieutenant

Laurens C. Shull for extraordinary heroism. Near Soissons, France, July 19, 1918, he led his platoon with brilliant courage in two attacks and was badly wounded in a third when, with equal vigor, he advanced against a machine gun nest."

To which may be added a word from one of Shull's letters, dated June 30. "I don't want to be buried in a cemetery over here. I hope they put me somewhere all alone. The Hun artillery fires on the graveyards because he fancies we use the crosses for observation posts or the like. But I don't see the use in being buried and unburied and then buried and unburied again. Put me by my lonesome in some old trench."

Among the University women the striking novelty is the W. S. T. C., or Women's

The W. S. T. C.

Students' Training Corps. This organization (a notice of which is given elsewhere in this number), the plan of Dean Elizabeth Wallace, is not a government, but a Chicago scheme. It has attracted wide attention, and will be widely imitated. Every woman student is eligible, and more than 600 have joined. A uniform (not required) has been adopted, and the women drill under the direction of the army officers in charge of the S. A. T. C. The drill feature is, however, altogether secondary to the service and vocational features.

the A. A. T. C. are from 10:00-12:00, no members of that organization, except premedical students being registered for any class work between 10 and 1. A further change is proposed, however, for A. O. T. C. men, which would leave them all free for recreation from 12:45 to 2:30. The reason for this lies in the fact that in October it was found the boys had no free time all together except from 5:05 to 5:30 (retreat). What this did to organized sports may be imagined; and the army insists on organized sports. Hereafter Mr. Stagg will drill the football squad between 1:00 and 2:30, so it is said; though how mess is to be managed deponent sayeth not. The reason for the original change was the necessity of getting class-rooms, which had become at some hours practically unprovidable.

THE COMMISSION OF RELIEF IN

BELGIUM

Give Your Worn Clothing to the Needy

Several million men and women in the occupied territory of Belgium and Northern France are in dire need of clothing. They are now making garments from old sheets, tablecloths, and sacking, and even these materials are almost exhausted. They have no resources; and if they had, there are no stocks of clothing to be bought. They need proper clothing as a measure of decency and as a protection against the weather and against disease. The Commission for Relief in Belgium asks your co-operation in the task of protecting these destitute sufferers and will forward in its cargo ships such articles of civilian clothing as you are willing to give. Every kind of garment is most urgently needed. If you are willing to help the people of Belgium and northern France in this way, send your spare clothing to the above named committee at 101 New Jersey Railroad avenue, Newark, N. J.