Student Army Training Corps, 1918

Yost comments:

The SATC had a short and hardly glorious career of two months. Its demise was not lamented. It had been viewed as a form of favoritism by those whose sons were not in college and thus were subject to immediate draft. By them the initials were interpreted to mean "Safe at the College." But if the war had continued longer, it might have provided as effectual a program to train men for the long term needs of the nation as the comparable programs in World War II.

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