Special Collaborators in Field Service-Continued. 12. Home education-Continued. Charles Foster Smith, professor of Greek and classical philology, University of Wisconsin, Madi Joseph L. Wheeler, librarian, Youngstown Public Library, Youngstown, Ohio. 13. Racinal groups: S. G. Atkins, principal Slater Industrial and State Normal School, Winston-Salem, N. C. 14. Georgraphy: Ray H. Whitbeck, professor of geography, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wis. 15. Illiteracy: Mrs. Cora Wilson Stewart, president Kentucky Illiteracy Commission, Frankfort, Ky. II. DEPARTMENT OF STATE: EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES. (1) School of consular instruction, Washington, D. C. (2) Student interpreters' schools: (a) Constantinople, Turkey; (b) Tokyo, Japan; (c) Peking, China. DEPARTMENT OF WAR: SYSTEM OF MILITARY EDUCATION. III. 1. United States Military Academy, West Point, N. Y. For the education of Cadets (prospective officers) of the Army, with the following primary objects: (a) To so develop the powers of analysis that the mind may reason to a logical conclusion. (b) To instill discipline and a high sense of honor. (c) To bring its graduates to the threshold of their profession properly equipped to pursue its study. 2. Special service schools, for each arm and department. For preparation for technical and tactical duties in the particular arm or service for duty with troops Students are the junior officers of the Army. Courses are both basic and advanced. (1) Infantry school, Camp Benning, Ga.1 (2) Cavalry school, Fort Riley, Kans. (3) Field Artillery schools: (a) School of fire, Fort Sill, Okla. (b) Basic school, Camp Knox, Ky.1 (c) Tactical school, Camp Bragg, N. C.1 (4) Coast Artillery school, Fort Monroe, Va.1 (5) Engineer school, Camp Humphreys, Va.1 (6) Ordnance schools: (1) The Ordnance school of application at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Aberdeen, Md., for the purpose of instructing officers of the department in mechanical and chemical engineering, dealing principally with the theory of ordnance design. (2) The Ordnance school of technology, Watertown Arsenal, Watertown, Mass., for the instruction of officers of the department in metallurgy and metallography, metallurgical chemistry, testing materials, shopwork, machine, smith and foundry, arsenal and general, administration, steam, power and compressed air. (3) The Ordnance operation, maintenance, and repair school, Raritan Arsenal, Metuchen, N. J., for the instruction of enlisted men of the Ordnance Department and others who may be detailed to take courses to train them to become machinists, blacksmiths, welders, automobile and tractor mechanics, small arms machine gun armorers, explosive specialists, artillery mechanics, saddlers, woodworkers, depot clerks and ordnance sergeants. (7) Signal Corps school: Camp Alfred Vail, Little Silver, N. J. (Training camp for enlisted men and junior officers.) (9) Tank Corps schools: (a) Technical school, Camp Meade, Md. (b) Tactical school, Camp Benning Ga.1 (10) Chemical war service school, Washington, D. C. 1 Proposed. Awaiting authority of Congress. (11) Motor transport schools: (a) Camp Holabird, Md.,1 (b) Camp Jessup, Ga.,1 (c) Camp Normoyle, Tex.1 At the Georgia Institute of Technology and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, it is planned to provide advanced training in automotive engineering for Motor Transport Corps officers, the course to be a special one covering one year. It is intended to send five officers to each place. These officers have not yet been selected. Authority has been obtained from the training section of the General Staff to establish units of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps at each of the following 10 listed colleges: (1) Carnegie Institute of Technology, Pittsburgh, Pa.; (2) University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pa.; (3) Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio; (4) University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tenn.; (5) University of Georgia, Athens, Ga.; (6) Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, La.; (7) University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa.; (8) University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebr.; (9) A. & M. College of Utah, Logan, Utah; (10) A. & M. College of Oregon, Corvallis, Oreg. (12) Medical schools: (a) The Army medical school, Washington, D. C. (b) Medical officers' training camps: (1) Camp Greenleaf, Fort Oglethorpe, Ga. (training of men for base hospitals and lines of communication); (2) Fort Riley, Kans. (training of regimental units). (c) Division of physical reconstruction: Educational staff. The Surgeon-General of the Army has General Hospital, Fort Bayard, N. Mex; Letterman General Hospital, San Francisco, Calif.; Walter (d) The Army school of nursing, Washington, D. C. (Training given in the various military 3. General schools. (1) General Service Schools, Fort Leavenworth, Kans. (a) School of the Line. Preparation of officers for technical handling of troops. Students taken from troops after course at special service schools. (b) General Staff School. Preparation for General Staff duty with tactical units, and for higher tactical command. Students taken from school of the line. (2) General Staff College, Washington, D. C. Preparation for War Department, General Staff, and high command. Students taken from troops after course at General Staff school. 4. Special Schools for enlisted men. Various schools for noncommissioned officers, bakers and cooks, teamsters, blacksmiths, farriers, mechanics, chauffeurs, automechanics, clerks, gunners, electricians, carpenters, etc., and various schools for voca tional training. Located at all posts and stations of the Army. 1 Proposed. Awaiting authority of Congre3s. 5. Reserve Officers Training Corps Units. NOTE: The letter (J) indicates a Junior Unit. All Junior Units are Infantry. |
