STUDENTS AS SOLDIERS.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1970, 29 January 1914, Page 5

STUDENTS AS SOLDIERS.

BIG CANADIAN PROPOSALS,

, The last number of the- "Military .Mail" to reach N r cw &n-l.and -stales that Colonel Hughes, the Canadian Minister of Militia, hjis well miller way a project to steuro -annually 300 or 400 University, students as trained oHiaers for tho Can-* adiiin Militia, It is proposed to bkil:w ~ generous provision at tl.vo yrrwus uiii- . versities i'of students' rcsidcijeeS, armr oflrios, and ground for military train* ing. The propect lias hem assisted by donations from tlio Into Lord Strath- \ tona, who lifts given some X'i'.OjOOO, juk'l from Major Leonard, of the-.NatioPal TraUfi-Cfl'iitiHental Hallway C(Mfl»vi.ssi«ii, whoso jriit will approximate to £100,<j00> • i'lveso donations Mvo 'tell RJV-on to ■- start tlio system at M-&ill .and Queen's 0 Universities respectively. t The Department <sf Militia-' will. ;P'i"ovido drill halls and armouries, mid liiider curtain renditions will supply frca ■rations for tlio students in residence. It will provide -officer instructors from . tho jjorinaiiwit corps, and will arrange. . for aii obligatory course of lectures ft-i'id examinations in* military subjects. .Alt students taking advantage of the J'osi- . deuce provisions must take a, -sourso s qualifying them to be MtUtk oniee-i's, i and must agree to become efltriei.it mem- ' 1-ers of the Canadian Officers' 'liailUiiS • Corps in ciio vear. The -students will be required to pay a sufliciont sum per week to corer the -expenses of servtee, heating, and fuel, hit otherwise, tt.ej williiavp f'r»o residence. ■ _• The Minister ns-pects a site to ho pra< . Tided in connection with tlio Vi'svers'itji ■ of Toronto. Ncgotiatteiss are- ftiso pi-Q- ---, cccdi-ng with tho University of _ Now 1 ftrmmvielt and Mount Alison toivcrsity. In British Columbia ten acres havo nl'roadv been sosuml at Point Grey to ho used to military training ifi tire pew TJnivf-rsitv of the province. At Lavnl, Quebec- there, are already 300 student? ■ taking tlio-officers 1 training course, alia ' it is heiiem' that next year the .lumber will bo increased' to 800- 'IV whfjo scheme will bo in charge of Lieut. M. . Peterson, soil of Principal Peterson, o? M'Gill University, and tho Minister o? Militia expects that the private- donoc lions will amount- to £-209,000. i i I ,