“ The regulations continue:
⁠In order to receive prompt consideration, applications from candidates now at college, and who are over twenty-one years of age, should be submitted so as to reach the office of the Chief of Engineers in Washington not later than January 15. The application from a person who has not reached this age at the present time must be submitted within three months before or one month after he reaches the age of twenty-one. ”

“ Under such regulations as the Chief of Engineers may prescribe a proportion of the students, as named by the school faculty, pursuing an engineering course in one of the approved technical engineering schools listed in the War Department, may enlist in the Enlisted Reserve Corps of the Engineer Department, and thereafter, upon presentation by the registrant to his local board of a certificate of enlistment, such certificate shall be filed with the questionnaire and the registrant shall be
placed in class V on the ground that he is in the military service of the United States. ”