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PLAN COLLEGE FLYING UNITS

War Department Offers Training On Large Scale--No Action By University Yet

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Next year every college which desires it can arrange with the War Department for aviation instructors, and students will be able to take a training program which will not interfere with prescribed college work while studying for a degree but will at the end of three years turn them out fully qualified aviators. When asked if the University would establish and Aviation Unit, Col. Goetz said that the military training for next year was to be determined by the University authorities. No plans had been for mutated the said which would prevent the training of aviators in college.

The War Department plan permits a college student to absorb the courses which have hitherto been included in the curricula of the ground schools main tainted at Princeton, M. I. T. and elsewhere.

A very little time each day will suffice for the theoretical work when the three months' intensive training which has been given aviation cadets, is spread out through three college years.

All training in actual flying will be given during the summer months at camps of the Student Officers' Reserve Corps and it is considered that three vacations spent at this training will enable a student to earn his wings.

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