Abstract :
The United States Navy has announced a new educational program that is intended on the one hand to keep young men in college to the limit of their ability, and on the other hand to provide the Navy with 80,000 or more specially trained young men per year qualified for advanced ratings or commissions. This program is available to any recognized university or college willing to effect only slight modifications in its regular undergraduate curricula to emphasize physical training, science, and mathematics, and will be administered by the school. Eligible candidates are young men between 17 and 19 years of age who have graduated from high school and entered — or been accepted for entrance to — any college or university collaborating with the Navy in the educational program. The students will carry on their college work at their own expense and will be allowed to continue it as far as they can do so within quality limitations prescribed by the Navy, after which they will be taken into active service at ratings in accord with their degree of advancement. It is an American plan for red-blooded American manhood and for educational institutions seriously interested in performing a vital service in an American way.
