The students will receive the pay news of privates quarters, mess, supplied. The war department will uniform and equip the students and army officers will be detailed as commandants and military instructors. All vacation periods will be discontinued as well as the summer camps which had been planned.
Relegation of college athletics to a position of minor importance in the future was advocated by Major W. R. Orton, of the general staff of the army, at the afternoon session. He took the stand that the rigorous drill to be given the students under the new system would supply all necessary physical culture.
Chancellor Edward C. Elliott, of the University of Montana, who was among other speakers of the afternoon, predicted that complete reorganization of higher educational institutions would come through the new plan and that many of the innovations would endure after the war.
The feature of tonight's session was an address by Major General John F. Morrison, commanding the western department of the army. He emphasized the necessity for speeding up the complete coordination of all colleges for the work of turning out officer material. 