WABASH College classes suspended - 1918 - Montgomery InGenWeb Project

Crawfordsville Oct 8 – Classes at Wabash College here have been temporarily suspended as a precautionary measure to prevent a Spanish Influenza epidemic amont the students. 15 cases are in the college hospital which formerly was the Phi Delta Theta fraternity house.  None of these is serious and the authorities are exercising every possible precaution to keep the disease under control.  As soon as a case of cole is discovered the student is promptly isolated from the others in the training camp.  The college has received additional blanks from the war department and the authorities are now prepared to induct into the student army training corps every man who has passed his physical examination or who has applied for admittion into the training unit but has not been examined. About 100 youths who have enrolled but have not been inducted into the service, have returned to their homes, awaiting receipt of induction blanks from the government. Prof JA Cragwall registrar of the college announces that all of these men can be inducted into the service just as soon as college reopens.  It is thought this will be within the next few days.   - kbz