"WITH THE COLORS" In the hall of the mam entrance hangs a Rag with 300 blue slars on a field of white; and in the center four white staTS. The stars represent the 304 men-alumni and former student&--which the University of
Idaho hal given to the country in answer to ils call. Of these. four have given their lives. Captain Phelps Collins fell in France. while Lieutenants Dudley Loomis and Howard Holaday, and Private L A. Ellington paid the price of their devotion at the training camps in this country. The men that Idaho has sent are nol all of recent dassel; the enlistments include members of the graduating classes of the past twenty years.
Every college and department in the University is represented;
the enlistment of the students in the College of Law was so heavy that not one member of the 1918 class was left in school.
Engineering,
Agriculture, and Arts and Science, all are represented on Idaho's honor list,
The athletic teams have furnished their quota, and those who
claim that athletics gives a man qualities of a fighter will find a splendid vindication of their assertion in the service Aag of the athletic department. One of the biggest things in connection with the men in the service is the number who have made good at the officer's training camps.
The
majority of these were appointed direct from the University or from their occupation, but a large number were privates in the army who won the right to attend the camps in competition with hundreds of other men.
Their work in the camps was of a high order, as may be seen
by the records,
In the second camp at Presidio only one man in 19
failed to receive a commissIOn; in the Fort Riley camp 19 of 2 I were recommended for commissions, and four-Wolford Renshaw '20, Tom Jackson '18. Bert Dingle" 7, and Maurice Davison '20-were recommended as instructors for the next camp. was almost as good.
The record at Camp Lewis
The faculty is also represented, both in the ranks
and among the officers. Many Idaho men are in France. and the word from "Over There" still further bears out the statement that "Idaho comes through," doing her share.
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