For the first time in the history of the University of Michigan a Reserve Officers' Training Corps was added to the curriculum in the fall semester of 1917. 1,200 students signed up for it on October 4, 1917.
Tuesday, December 18, 1917, the Michigan Daily reported that one thousand men and women had pledged membership to the Red Cross after a meeting held in Hill Auditorium on Sunday, December 16. One of the speakers at the meeting, Duncan Clark- writer…