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The Daily Worker
Chicago, Cook County, Illinois
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Federal government expands naval training into U.S. colleges, selecting six major universities as initial sites for ROTC-like programs under 1925 act, with officers assigned and incentives like cruises and pay offered to students.
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WASHINGTON, July 16.—Naval training is following military training into the universities and colleges of the United States, under federal guidance. Six big schools—Harvard, Yale, Georgia Institute of Technology, Northwestern University, the University of California and the University of Wisconsin—have been picked out by the secretary of the navy as the trial units of a scheme for establishing many branches of the Naval Academy at Annapolis.
The four-year course of study in the naval training units will be instituted in these six schools this year. The units will be the naval academies of the naval reserve. Graduates will be made ensigns in the volunteer naval reserve.
This imitation of the military training propaganda in colleges is officially declared to be based on an act of March 4, 1925, authorizing the creation of an R. O. T. C. for naval reserves. Students will be provided with uniforms patterned after that worn by cadets at Annapolis, and the instruction will be similar. The navy department will pay the cost of equipment.
As an attraction to college students to enroll in this course a summer cruise is promised. After completion of the first two years of the course students will be given $15 per month ration money.
Two naval officers have been assigned to each of the six universities where the initial courses are to start this fall.
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United States
Event Date
July 16
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naval training units established in six universities; graduates made ensigns in volunteer naval reserve; summer cruises promised; $15 per month ration money after two years.
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Naval training following military training into universities and colleges under federal guidance. Six schools—Harvard, Yale, Georgia Institute of Technology, Northwestern University, University of California, University of Wisconsin—selected as trial units for branches of Naval Academy. Four-year course instituted this year; units as naval academies of naval reserve. Based on act of March 4, 1925, authorizing R.O.T.C. for naval reserves. Uniforms and instruction similar to Annapolis; navy pays equipment costs. Two naval officers assigned to each university starting this fall.