A special Army Order was issued on Wednesday announcing the
forthcoming formation of an Officers' Training Corps. The corps is to train public-school boys and members of the Universities with a view to their becoming Special Reserve officers. Young men who, when they receive commissions as Special Reserve or Territorial officers, can produce certificates of proficiency from the Officers' Training Corps will be exempted from part of their probationary training and from certain examinations. The corps will be directly under the War Office and independent of County Associations. Members of the University will belong to the " Senior Division," and public-school boys to the " Junior Division." To be eligible to join the Training Corps a University or school contingent must have not fewer than thirty Cadets. A holder of the highest certificate given by the corps will receive two hundred marks if he goes in for the Sandhurst or Wool- wich entrance examinations.
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