UNIVERSITY HEADS ASSEMBLE

A conference of nineteen college presidents has been called by the War Department at the Army War College in Washington today with the Army General Staff for discussion of military courses to be organized in institutions desiring to take advantage of provisions of the army reorganization law. It will also be debated how the greatest benefit can be derived from Plattsburg and similar military camps.

Estimates have been made that a corps of 50,000 partially-trained junior officers, must be maintained to facilitate the organization of an adequate military force should the nation have war with a power capable of attempting invasion. These men would have to be supplied mainly be institutions with approved military courses where military training under army officers is part of a student's work.

The officials who are expected to attend the conference include President Lowell, President Hadley of Yale; President Raycroft of Princeton; President Schurman of Cornell; President Ganfield of Williams; President Hopkins of Dartmouth; President Drinkwater of Lehigh; President Nichols of Virginia Military Institute; President Humphries of Stevens; President Finley of University State of New York; President Wheeler of the University of California; President Hutchins of Michigan; President Denny of the University of Alabama; President James of Illinois; President Kirkland of Vanderbilt; Reverend E. A. Pace, president of the Catholic University of America; President Thompson of Ohio State; President Ayres of Tennessee; President Riggs of Clemson Agricultural College, and President Vincent of Minnesota.

Dr. Grenville Clark, J. Lloyd Derby and De Lancy R. Jay, officials of the Military Training Camps Association of the United States are also expected to attend.