FACULTY ACTION ON MILITARY EDUCATION

The committee appointed by the Faculty to consider the question of military education in the College has spent much time and effort in a careful investigation of this problem in its many phases. It has submitted reports at recent meetings of the Faculty and has offered recommendations for Faculty action. As a result of these reports and recommendations the Faculty has passed two important votes. At the meeting of April 19, it was voted inexpedient, at the present time and under the conditions now existing, to introduce into the College a course in military training with drill, for which credit is to be given in hours towards a degree. At this same meeting the Faculty voted that the committee on military education be continued in order that they might take up and consider the matter of military education in the College when, in their judgment, new conditions justify such further consideration, and report their findings and recommendations to the Faculty.

This committee submitted another report at the meeting of April 24. As a result of this report the Faculty voted to recommend to the Trustees of the College that a credit of three hours toward a degree be granted for attendance at the Plattsburg Summer Camp or any other similar summer camp under the authority of the War Department during the summer of 1916. The conditions of such credit shall be that the student is enrolled in the College at the close of the present College year, and is eligible to return at the opening of the next college year; that he shall file with the Dean on or before July 1 a duplicate copy of his enrollment blank; that he shall attend the full five weeks period at the camp; that he shall secure from the authorities of the camp the certificate of competency and shall present the same to the Dean on or before' October 1, 1916.