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 UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO BULLETIN 
 
 Vol. XVIII, No. 10 General Series No. 131 
 
 Published Monthly by the Regents of the University oi Colorado. 
 Entered at the Post Office, Boulder, Colorado, as second-class mail matter. 
 
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 THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO IN WAR TIME 
 
 Professor Thomas M. Marshall, of the History Department, Has Contributed This Survey of the 
 
 University Activities in War Time 
 
 Soon after the United States entered 
 the war the universities and colleges 
 throughout the country were confronted 
 by a grave situation. Large numbers of 
 students enlisted, many members of the 
 faculties engaged in various branches of 
 war service, and many of the institutions 
 which depend largely upon tuition found 
 their incomes depleted. The part which 
 universities were to play in the great 
 drama was not foreseen and a perplexing 
 condition existed in the domain of higher 
 education. Some institutions even con- 
 templated closing for the period of the 
 war, but saner views soon prevailed and 
 it ibecame evident to college presidents, 
 regents, and faculties that the univers- 
 ities could be made powerful agencies to 
 assist the government of the United 
 States. This assistance could" be rendered 
 by aiding at the council board, by helping 
 the public to obtairi a more intelligent 
 idea of the European situation and of the 
 reasons for the entry of the United States 
 into the war, and in many other ways. 
 
 The University of Colorado faced the 
 situation without flinching. It experi- 
 enced no hysteria and none of the state 
 verging upon panic which was noticeable 
 in some institutions. Its one desire was 
 to be of service. It was realized that 
 economies must be practiced, and that its 
 energies must be bent to the great pur- 
 pose of winning the war. In a few months 
 over eight hundred stars were on its serv- 
 ice flag; students had enlisted and won 
 commissions before they became subject 
 to the draft; and many of the men who 
 had given the University its high place 
 In the' educational world had gone into 
 the service. 
 
 It is said on good authority that the 
 
 University of Colorado has given to the 
 war tasks of the nation a larger propor- 
 tion of its faculty than any other institu- 
 tion in the country.* It is impossible in 
 this brief bulletin to give a complete list 
 of the faculty members who are in serv- 
 ice; the following statement, however, 
 will illustrate the varied fields to which 
 they have been called: President Living- 
 ston Farrand is head of the American Com- 
 mission for the Prevention of Tuberculosis 
 in France; Dean Milo S. Ketchum of the 
 College of Engineering is in charge of the 
 construction of a vast explosives plant at 
 Nitro, West Virginia; Professor Oliver C. 
 Lester of the Physics Department and 
 Dean John D. Fleming of the Law School 
 are inspecting courses in Students Army 
 Training Corps institutions; Professor 
 James N. Ashmore, Director of Physical 
 Training, is directing sports in an army 
 camp; Professor Max M. Ellis of the Bi- 
 ology Department is in the Sanitary Corps 
 of the army; Mr. Arthur E. Oilman of 
 the Extension Division is in army Y, M. 
 C. A. work; Professor Arnold J. Lien of 
 the Political Science Department is in 
 Red Cross work in France; Professor 
 Lawrence W. Cole is captain assigned to 
 the medical division for mental tests in 
 the army; Professor C. Henry Smith, the 
 University Librarian, built the army li- 
 brary at Camp Cody; Dean Homer C. 
 Washburn, Professor F. G. Folsom, and 
 Professor I. C. Crawford are majors in the 
 army. Under the direction of Dean Charles 
 N. Meader Base Hospital 2 9 was organized 
 and to it the University contributed twelve 
 faculty members as well as a number of 
 
 *Se6 Robert Lincoln Kelly's article in 
 Scribner'a Magazine, January, 1918. 
 
students; this unit is now i active duty 
 over-seas. When the war started there 
 were two hundred and twenty-two in- 
 structors on the faculty; of these, seven- 
 ty-four have been called into service. 
 
 Those who remained have served no 
 less than those who have gone. In the 
 Red 'Cross, the Y. M. C. A., the Patriotic 
 League, Liberty Loan and War Savings 
 Stamp drives, in hospital service, and in 
 the many other activities made necessary 
 by the war, faculty and students have 
 given of their time and money without 
 stint.* 
 
 In sipite of the drain upon the student 
 body and faculty the University did not 
 suffer a great depletion in numbers. At 
 the end of the first year of the participa- 
 tion of the United States in the war the 
 total enrollment was 1,259 as compared 
 with 1,4 05 of the previous year. To stop 
 the gaps made by the inroads of war ef- 
 forts were made to bring new men into 
 the faculty, thirty-two instructors having 
 been added since the war began. A few 
 courses were necessarily dropped, but the 
 already over^burdened faculty took stock 
 oif its reserve strength and assumed the 
 work of those who had gone, so that the 
 efficiency of the University was not ma- 
 terially impaired. 
 
 THE R. O. T. C. 
 
 It isoon became evident that higher ed- 
 ucational institutions could be a vast re- 
 cruiting iground for officers and technical 
 experts for the rapidly growing army of 
 the United States. The first step in utiliz- 
 ing this body of officers' material was the 
 establishment of the Reserve Officers' 
 Training Corps, familiarly known as the 
 R. O. T. C. By an act of Congress of 
 June 3, 1916, provision was made for the 
 organization of the corps and the estab- 
 
 *'For other activities of faculty members 
 during the academic year 1917 - 1918, 
 reference may be made to the article on 
 "The University of Colorado and the War" 
 In The Colorado Alumnus, April, 1918, 
 and to the University of Colorado Bulletin 
 of the Patriotic League. Neither of these, 
 however, is complete. 
 
 lishment of units in institutions which 
 were found to be adequately equipped. 
 The University of Colorado applied for the 
 establishment of a unit, and after the in- 
 stitution had been duly inspected by the 
 War Department, its request was granted. 
 
 Over four hundred vaen were soon en- 
 rolled in the R. O. T. C. and Captain (now 
 Major) James A. Merritt, U. S. A., retired, 
 was placed in command. Six companies 
 were eventually organized. Government 
 uniforms were issued and the unit was 
 supplied with riflles, one-half of the cost 
 of the latter being met by John A. Mc- 
 Kenna, a public-spirited citizen of Boulder. 
 Of the R. O. T. C. over a hundred cadets 
 have already received commissions. In 
 addition to their military training, the 
 members of the R. 0. T. C. received regu- 
 lar academic instruction, each student 
 carrying a full course in his chosen field. 
 Some additional courses were needed to 
 meet the requirements of the War Depart- 
 ment. Accordingly courses were offered 
 in aeroplane construction and operation, 
 automobile construction and operation, 
 wireless telegraphy and telegraphy oper- 
 ating, military mapping and sketching, 
 military explosives, military hygiene and 
 sanitation, camp sanitation, mental tests 
 for war service, and conversational French 
 and German. 
 
 Special courses bearing upon the war 
 and open to all students were given on 
 international law and govermental ideals 
 of states at war, the European origin of 
 the war, and on the United States and 
 the war. Professor James F. Willard is 
 offering a course on Colorado in the War 
 in which material on the war activities of 
 Colorado people is being collected with a 
 view to future publication. This work is 
 now backed by the State Council of De- 
 fense and is meeting with the hearty co- 
 operation of the counties. 
 
 TRAINING SOLDIERS IN VOCATIONAL 
 SUBTECTS. 
 
 As the new national army was organ- 
 ized the War Department found that it 
 was short of well-trained mechanics, con- 
 crete workers, telegraph operators, ai^cj 
 
signal service men. Once more the Uni- 
 versities were able to come to the assist- 
 ance of the government. On April 2 5, 
 1918, the University of Colorado entered 
 into a contract with the War Department 
 to instruct National Army Training De- 
 tachments of two hundred and fifty men 
 each in vocational subjects. The first 
 contingent, composed of men from Utah, 
 arrived on May 15. Sixty of these men 
 were assigned as auto mechanics and driv- 
 ers, sixty for radio, sixty 'for telegraphy, 
 fifty for concrete work, and twenty for 
 general mechanics. They were housed 
 and messed in the armory and were given 
 instruction in the engineering buildings. 
 
 and fifty from our own state arrived on 
 July 15 and remained for eight weeks. 
 They were an unusually fine body of 
 men and under the same offi'cers they 
 reached a degree oif efficiency far above 
 the average usually attained in a period 
 of eight weeks training. The instruction 
 given to the Colorado contingent was the 
 same as that for the Utah unit with the 
 exception that a course of lectures on the 
 causes of the war was introduced at the 
 suggestion of the War Department Com- 
 mittee on Education and Special Training. 
 When the men finished their period of 
 training, fifteen were sent to Officers' 
 Training Camps, five to the Signal Of- 
 
 STATE ARMORY — USED AS S. A. T. C. BARRACKS. 
 
 The able Commanding Officer, Captain 
 Burr A. Beard, and his efficient staff 
 soon brought the contingent to a high 
 standard. When the Utah detachment 
 finished its training, twelve men were 
 sent at once to Officers' Training Camps. 
 Most of the others were sent to Camp 
 Dodge and eighty percent were soon made 
 non-commissioned officers and sent over- 
 seas. Already several of them have made 
 the supreme sacrifice for their country. 
 A number of the Utah contingent were re- 
 tained at the University to assist in in- 
 structing and training the next unit. 
 
 A second contingent of two hundred 
 
 ficers' School at Yale, and others were 
 distributed among various schools for 
 training as experts. As liefore, several 
 were held at the University as instructors 
 and officers. The third contingent ar- 
 rived on Septemiber 15 and was composed 
 of men from Montana. These were dis- 
 charged from service on December 10. 
 
 On September 2 the University entered 
 into a third contract with the War De- 
 partment. This agreement provided that 
 between November 15, 1918. and June 15, 
 1919, the University should train approx- 
 imately nine hundred men in vocational 
 subjects in detachments of three hundred 
 
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 HOUSES USED AS HOSPITALS AND BARRACKS. 
 
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each, but the sudden ending of the war 
 caused the War Deipartment to cancel the 
 contract. 
 
 THE SUMIVIER SCHOOL 
 
 In spite of the war the University Sum- 
 mer School was carried on under the able 
 direction of Professor Milo G. Derham. 
 Six hundred and seventy-two students 
 were in attendance. In addition to a full 
 curriculum several courses and forty-three 
 public lectures which had direct bearing 
 upon the war were offered. 
 
 THE S. A. T. C. 
 
 The demand of the army for officers 
 and technical experts became more and 
 more insistent during the spring and 
 summer of 1918. To meet this demand 
 the War Department determined to use 
 the institutions of higher education to the 
 fullest extent possible and organized the 
 Students Army Training Corps. As soon 
 as the plan was worked out, the State 
 University was asked to assume the re- 
 sponsibility of enlisting the interest and 
 co-operation of the other institutions of 
 the State and of carrying on a campaign of 
 information among the people of Colorado. 
 
 The corps was divided into two sections, 
 the collegiate and vocational, the latter 
 composed of the above-mentioned National 
 Army Training Detachments.* The col- 
 legiate section was open to registrants 
 who were members of some author- 
 ized college, university, or professional 
 school. Registrants who were graduates 
 of standard four year secondary schools, 
 or who had equivalent educational qual- 
 ifications, or who in the judgment of the 
 University authorities would be able to 
 do college work, were also admitted to 
 the collegiate section. 
 
 Students of the University joined the 
 
 *The section dealing with the S. A. T. 
 C. is taken almost in its entirety from the 
 government descriptive circular, "The Stu- 
 dents Army Training Corps", corrected to 
 October 14, 1918. The language of the 
 circular is frequently used without quota, 
 tion marks. 
 
 S. A. T. C. by induction into the service. 
 They then became members of the army 
 with the status of privates, receiving pay 
 and subsistence; they were subject to 
 military orders and lived in barracks un- 
 der military discipline. These men, like 
 soldiers in the general army, were In 
 service for the period of the existing 
 emergency, and it remained with the 
 President of the United States to declare 
 when that emergency was over. A recent 
 order from the War Department informed 
 the University authorities that demobili- 
 zation of the S. A. T. C. was to begin on 
 December 1, and be completed by Decem- 
 ber 21. 
 
 A naval detachment was also maintain- 
 ed at the University. These men wore 
 naval uniforms, and paid their own ex- 
 penses from an allowance made to them 
 by the Navy Department. They attended 
 drill and exercises of the S. A. T. C. and 
 pursued a course prescribed by the Navy 
 Department. They were also demobilized 
 under the War Department order. 
 
 UNIVERSITY REORGANIZATION. 
 
 The introduction of the S. A. T. C. pre- 
 sented a distinct and difficult problem. 
 The University was already under con- 
 tract to train several hundred men in 
 vocational subjects. It faced the proba- 
 bility of receiving seven or eight hundred 
 men in the collegiate S. A. T. C. who 
 were to be given military training and 
 such educational courses as the War De- 
 partment Committee on Education and 
 Special Training considered necessary, and 
 it was to house, feed, and provide hospital 
 service for this body of men. But it 
 must be remembered that this was not 
 to be the only work of the University. 
 It was to remain primarily an educational 
 institution which would not only train 
 members of the S. A. T. C, but continue 
 to carry on the manifold activities of a 
 University. Hundreds of women were to 
 be given the same opportunities as before: 
 teachers were to be trained; men who 
 were not in the S .A. T. C. were to be 
 cared for; valuable research work and 
 the graduate school were not to b« a- 
 
bandoned; in short it was as i&r as poss- 
 ible to be what it had been with the added 
 burden of educating a thousand men for 
 the army. 
 
 To meet the new situation the time 
 was all too short. The date of opening 
 was placed at October 1, to ^allow the 
 students to work in the fields, factories, 
 and mines as long as possible before re- 
 turning to college. In less than a month 
 many new courses had to be organized 
 and a program prepared, in addition to 
 providing housing for the S. A. T. C. men. 
 The plan for the S, A. T. C. necessitated 
 the abandonment of the semester system 
 and the adoption of the four quarter plan. 
 A reorganization of the curricula was 
 also necessary to meet the new conditions. 
 
 In the College of Liberal Arts it seemed 
 
 Training asked that every member of the 
 Students Army Training Corps be given 
 a course in the causes of the war. Ac- 
 cordingly the History Department arrang- 
 ed a course of thirty lectures on the 
 historical, social, and economic back- 
 ground of the Great War. 
 
 The courses in the Engineering School 
 underwent a more profound change than 
 those of any other college. This was due 
 to the fact that 'practically all of the 
 students in this college were members of 
 the S. A. T. C. Out of a total of over 
 six hundred men in the collegiate sec- 
 tion of that organization, four hundred 
 and sixty elected engineering. Among 
 these was a naval unit of seventy-seven 
 men who were sent to the University for 
 training as engineers in the navy. In 
 
 NEW ENGINEERrNG LABORATORY. 
 
 best to make provision for practically two 
 colleges, one for the young women and 
 for the men who were not in the S. 
 A. T. C, the other for the S. A. T. C. 
 A few courses were available for both 
 classes of students, especially those in 
 French, algebra, trigonometry, and comp- 
 osition. New courses in military hygiene 
 and sanitation, military geography and 
 topography, meteorology, and hallistics 
 were organized. The War Department 
 Committee on iEducation and Special 
 
 addition to this the task of training the 
 vocational section also fell upon this 
 college. To meet the situation several 
 additional instructors were employed and 
 all the engineering courses were speeded 
 up so that the students could get the 
 essentials of engineering in two years In- 
 stead of four. Special arrangements are 
 being made for engineering students who 
 had already completed two or three years 
 of work in the University, A war aims 
 course was arranged for the college 
 
S. A. T. C. AUTO MECHANICS AT WORK. 
 
 in conjunction with courses in English. 
 Just before the war the University, 
 which Is inadequately housed, was making 
 extensive plans for a large building pro- 
 gram. This was temporarily put aside 
 because of the increasing cost of materials 
 and because of the feeling that every 
 possible economy should be practiced. 
 Bu't the influx of engineering students 
 which began to show itself last spring 
 made it evident that the present plant 
 
 would not suffice. Consequently the Re- 
 gents determined to build another engi- 
 neering laboratory. It has been under 
 construction since June. The new building 
 is located just west of the engineering 
 shops and is the same general type of 
 structure, the dimensions being 135 by 
 160 feet. It will cost approximately 
 $9 0,00 0. A temporary building to house 
 automobiles has also been erected. 
 
 The School of Law was hit harder by 
 
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the war than any other college. Most of 
 the older students enlisted and few of the 
 S. A. T. C. men elected law. Junior 
 and Senior classes were combined and one 
 of the professors was allowed temporarily 
 to devote his time to work in the College 
 of LJberal Arts. Courses in military law 
 were given to seventy-five members of the 
 S. A. T. C. The departure of Dean Flem- 
 ing to inspect law courses in S. A. T. C. 
 institutions leaves but two professors in 
 the Law School to carry on the work. 
 
 In the Medical School measures were 
 taken to make possible the completion oif 
 the work in a shorter [period than in 
 normal times. The last two years were 
 placed on the continuous session basis last 
 June, so that the class which would nor- 
 mally have graduated next June will fin- 
 ish in February, and the class which nor- 
 mally would have graduated in June, 
 1920, will graduate in September, 1919. 
 With the beginning of the present aca- 
 demic year all classes are placed on the 
 same basis. The main emphasis of course 
 continues to be laid on a well-rounded 
 medical education, but certain special 
 courses are given which have a distinct 
 military character. Thus, there is a 
 special course in military hygiene and a 
 special course in military surgery. Other 
 regular courses in medicine and surgery 
 have been modified to a slight extent to 
 take account of diseases especially inci- 
 dent to war work, as for example shell 
 shock and trench fever. 
 
 To meet the great demand for 
 nurses a special twelve weeks course in 
 nurses training was given in connection 
 with the Nurses' Training School, begin- 
 ning July 1 and ending September 21, 
 the course being patterned after that 
 given at Vassar College. This course will 
 soon be offered again. To make it possible 
 to train a larger number of nurses, the 
 University has erected a nurses' home 
 which cost approximately $6,000 'and 
 will give accommodation for twenty ad- 
 ditional nurses. 
 
 The work of the Graduate School is 
 continuing, although with a falling off in 
 attendance, the registration in 1917-1918 
 
 being seventy-two as compared with 
 ninety-six in 1915-1916. Owing to the 
 disturbed conditions caused by the epi- 
 demic, to the fact that registration in the 
 Graduate School is always late, and to 
 the fact that many of the younger instruc- 
 tors in the University who usually take 
 graduate work are in war service, it is 
 impossible to state at present the number 
 in the school for the current year. How- 
 ever, the indications are promising and 
 the University is prepared to carry on the 
 advanced work as in previous years. 
 
 The University Extension Division found 
 its activities somewhat curtailed by the 
 fact that some of its work was taken over 
 by state or national agencies, especially 
 its Americanization program. For several 
 years the Bureau of Vocational Instruc- 
 tion of the Extension Division has been 
 conducting classes in the coal camps, 
 smelters, packing houses, sugar beet fac- 
 tories, and similar plants. Two years ago 
 this bureau undertook the teaching of 
 English and elementary branches to for- 
 eigners. When the Department of the 
 Interior and the National Council of De- 
 fense last spring took up this work as a 
 national emergency measure, calling uipon 
 State Councils of Defense to push it vigor- 
 ously through state Americanization com- 
 mittees, the Governor of Colorado a-p- 
 pointed the Acting President of the Uni- 
 versity to head the Americanization Com- 
 mittee of the Colorado State Council of 
 Defense and asked the University to lend 
 to this committee such machine: y for 
 Americanization as lit had worked out. 
 The Regents of the University are at 
 present contributing the full time of two 
 members of the Faculty and the partial 
 time of two other members to American- 
 ization work in Colorado. 
 
 The Bureau of Yocational Instruction 
 of the Extension Division is now giving 
 special attention to instruction in engin- 
 eering mathematics, automobile operation, 
 and various other courses which will as- 
 sist in fitting men for war service. A 
 bureau of the Extension Division is giving 
 work which will fit students to take civil 
 service examinations. Courses are also 
 
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being given in war alms, educational re- 
 construction, and in tlie reorganization of 
 business. Child welfare institutes are be- 
 ing held and a representative is main- 
 tained on the Western Slope who is con- 
 ducting classes in hygiene and health, in 
 patriotism, and in various other subjects. 
 When demobilization began the regis- 
 tration in the University was as follows: 
 Medicine 71, Law 12, Liberal Arts 701, 
 Engineering 460, Pharmacy 21, Training 
 School for Nurses 3 5, Vocational Section 
 of the S. A. T. C. 300; a total registration 
 of 1600. This does not include the regis- 
 tration in the graduate school, nor stu- 
 dents in extension classes. At present it is 
 impossible to estimate the falling off in 
 attendance caused by demobilization, but 
 It is probable that the majority of the 
 men will remain in college. 
 
 DAILY LIFE IN THE STUDENTS ARJVfY 
 TRAINING CORPS. 
 
 The War Department regulations con- 
 cerning S. A. T. C. units provided that 
 the University should house and feed the 
 men, and provide adequate hospital facil- 
 ities. The University is not equipped with 
 dormitories and in the emergency strenu- 
 ous measures were necessary. The fra- 
 ternities showed a fine spirit of co-opera- 
 tion and gladly leased their houses to the 
 University. Several large houses near the 
 campus were also secured. These did not 
 give sufficient room, nor were they prop- 
 erly arranged for messing such a large 
 number of men. The armory was already 
 occupied by the vocational section of the 
 S. A. T. C. It was therefore necessary to 
 build large dining halls where all of the 
 collegiate S. A. T. C. could mess, and 
 barracks which would accommodate three 
 hundred men. Under the supervision of 
 Professor Whitney C. Huntington these 
 buildings were erected according to de- 
 signs of the War Department. The bar- 
 racks contain 16,800 square feet of floor 
 space and cost approximately $22,000. A 
 separate mess hall with a capacity for 
 three hundred and eighty men was erected 
 at a cost of $6,000. 
 
 The daily life of the men followed War 
 
 Department regulations. The program 
 was as follows: Reveille 6:00, mess 6:20, 
 drill 7:30 to 9:30, classes 9:30 to 12:00, 
 mess 12:00 to 1:30, classes 1:30 to 4:30, 
 athletics and exercise 4:30 to 5:30, re- 
 treat and mess 6:00, freedom 6:30 to 
 7:30, supervised study 7:30 to 9:30, taps 
 10:00. At least forty-two hours of study 
 and class work per week were required. 
 
 The military supervision was under of- 
 ficers assigned to the University by the 
 War Department, the staff being made up 
 of a major, three captains, thirteen second 
 lieutenants, a chief master-at-arms, a 
 doctor, and a dentist. Eleven companies 
 were organized. The men were furnished 
 army clothing, including overcoats and 
 and sweaters, and with blankets. They 
 w^ere armed with modified Enfield and 
 Russian rifles. 
 
 The organization of the S. A .T. C. 
 brought about a complete change in col- 
 lege athletics. The plan followed was not 
 to ibuild up championship teams, but to 
 see that every man was made physically 
 fit. An athletic coach was engaged, his 
 business being to organize sports in 
 which all the men could participate. The 
 chief interest was in inter-company con- 
 tests rather than in inter-collegiate rival- 
 ries. In addition to games and drill, the 
 men were given calisthenics, this branch 
 being under the direction of the company 
 commanders. 
 
 The feeding of the men was carefully 
 supervised, great attention being given to 
 the quality and quantity of the food. The 
 following menu taken at random from a 
 pile of daily menus will give an adequate 
 idea of the army mess: 
 
 Menu for Thursday, October 31, 1918. 
 Breakfast — Oatmeal and milk, grapes, 
 fried bacon and fried apples, fried po- 
 tatoes, coffee, bread, and 'butter. 
 Lunch — Stewed beef with vegetables, 
 mashed potatoes, succotash, parsnips, 
 stewed peaches, coffee, and bread. 
 Dinner — ^Soup, roast beef with brown 
 gravy, steamed potatoes, spaghetti Cre- 
 ole, celery sa,lad, stewed cranberries, 
 coffee, and bread. 
 
 The War Department was fully con- 
 vinced that a singing army is more potent 
 
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 HOUSES USED AS BARRACKS, 
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INTERIOR OF AR 
 
 than a silent one and adopted means to 
 organize group singing in the Students 
 Army Training Corps. The organization 
 of singing in the University was assigned 
 to Chaplain Roy W. Hamilton, who ap- 
 pointed song leaders in each company. The 
 joyous singing of the soldiers was a pleas- 
 ure to the men and to all those connected 
 with them. 
 
 The University took pains to see that 
 a healthy social and religious atmosphere 
 was maintained. The Army Y. M. C. A. 
 proved to he an efficacious factor. The 
 Colorado Union generously placed its 
 
 MY Y. M. C. A. 
 
 building and equipment at the service of 
 the "Y". A canteen was opened and men 
 were allowed to deposit money for safe 
 keeping with the secretary. Religious 
 services were held at which clergymen of 
 various denominations officiated. The 
 present Secretary is Dr. Donald McFayden 
 of the History Department. He is assisted 
 by the Reverend R. P. Taylor, an old foot- 
 ball star, who acts as physical director. 
 By the work of the Y. M. C. A. and of the 
 Reverend Roy W. Hamilton, Chaplain of 
 the Corps, a high moral tone was pre- 
 served among the men. 
 
 S. A. T. C. BARRACKS— INTERIOR. 
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ONE OF THE NEW BARRACKS. 
 
 Under the direction of the Y. W. C. A. 
 a Hostess House was maintained where 
 the men in training could meet their 
 friends and relatives. Much was done 
 to add to the enjoyment of the soldiers 
 by social gatherings and musical en- 
 tertainments. During the epidemic the 
 Hostess, Miss Maud E. Craig, did a great 
 deal to add to the comfort of the sick. 
 When the Woman's Building had to be 
 given over the President's home on the 
 campus was made the social center for the 
 S. A. T. C. 
 
 The spirit of the S. A .T. C. was re- 
 markable. In spite of the epidemic and 
 (he interruption of the college work, these 
 young soldiers refused to be depressed. 
 When the Fourth Liberty Loan Drive was 
 in progress the men responded very gen- 
 erously, the average subscription being 
 $tiO per man, which is said to be the best 
 showing made by any army unit in the 
 country. 
 
 THE EPIDEMIC. 
 
 The epidemic of Spanish influenza was 
 brought to the University by the Montana 
 
 INTERIOR VIEW OF BARRACKS. 
 
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LIBRARY OP CONOKti>i. 
 
 020 914 356 2 
 
 S. A. T. C. TENTS PITCHED NEAR HOSPITAL. 
 
 contingent. When they arrived on Sep- 
 tember 19 two or three of these men were 
 suffering with the disease. It was not 
 recognized as Spanish influenza until the 
 21st, at which time a fraternity house 
 was taken over as a hospital. The num- 
 ber of iiedical men on duty at the Uni- 
 versity being inadequate to combat the 
 epidfciiiic. civilian doctors and nurses were 
 employed. The rapid spread of the disease 
 soon made it necessary to bring in medical 
 officers and nurses from Fort Leaven- 
 worth and Fort Logan. The epidemic as a 
 whole presented one striking peculiarity. 
 It burst forth with great violence at the 
 beginning, ran a rapid course, and sub- 
 sided as rapidb' as it commenced. Out of 
 
 several hundred cases nineteen deaths oc- 
 curred. It is the judgment of Major Ben- 
 nett, the chief of the medical staff, that 
 the most important measure adopted in 
 the handling of the epidemic fwasi the 
 dispersion of the men so that more air 
 space could be allotted to each man. Many 
 were housed in tents and others were 
 taken from their barracks and given quar_ 
 ters in buildings on the campus. Th'^ 
 University is now practically free from the 
 disease and resumed work on November 
 11 as directed by the Secretary of the 
 Stale Board of Health. The health situa- 
 tion is now excellent, and there is no 
 sign of a recurrence of the epidemic. 
 
 INTERIOR OF ARMY TENT. 
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