Students take part in the newly inaugurated compulsory physical training program.

 

- °GETTING INTO FIGHTING CONDITION AT MICHIGAN

 

 

Special to THE New YorK TIMES.
ANN ARBOR, Mich., July 18—
Physical training of a type recom-
mended by the Army and Navy is
rapidly getting 1,850 University of
Michigan students into wartime

fighting .condition. Today, after
four weeks of the first compulsory

 

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hardening program in the univer-
sity’s history, one official predicted
that “there won’t be enough fat left
on their bodies to poke a finger into
by the end of Summer.”

By order of the Board of Regents
the program is required of every
student registered in the draft or

in any'special enlistment program,
unless he is medically exempt. It
aims to have the students in top-
notch shape when they enter the
armed forces and also to improve
their chances for advancement. A
Fall enrollment of about 5,000 is
expected, but facilities are believed
adequate.