The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-10-30
HEAVY ENLISTMENTS
OF COLLEGIANS SHOWN
Nearly Half of Those in New England
Institutions Have Entered Some
of War Work.

HARTFORD, Conn, Oct. 39.-Al-
most one-half of the students enrolled
in all the colleges and universities,
technical and agricultural schools OF
New England enlisted in the active
military or naval service of the United
States or dropped their studies and de-
voted all their attention to indirect war
service within short time Of the entry
Of this country into war last spring.
according to statistics gathered by the
committee on publicity Of the Connec-
tieut state council of defense. The
figures upon which this estimate is
based were received by the committee
in response to QUESTIONABLE sent to
each of the colleges and schools.
A little over one fourth of the total
enrolment Of the colleges enlisted di-
rectly in the military service. There
were approximately 10000 students IN
the twenty colleges of New England
when this nation became involved III
the war. OF these 5,249 joined the
colors almost Immediately. Nearly
| 3 600 more took up one form or another
of indirect war service, such as agrl-
| culture or technical work, bringing the
total of war workers to $500. These
| figures do not include graduate enlist
ments or enlistments by undergradu-
ates since the Selective Service act be
came effective.
| Yale and Harvard lost approximately
| 90 per cent of their enrollments through
| enlistmcnts. although it has been estl.
mated that on an average only ~ per
cent of the average college enrolment
/ is physically fit for active war service
A midsummer number of The Harvard
Alumni Bulletin recorded ! $50 of the
2,5SJ undergraduates who were study
ing when the war started as enrolled
in training camps, regular or reserve
army, navy and aviation service, field
ambulance work, or other active Wal
service With the addition of graduates
the Harvard honor roll reached a tota
of 5000. At Yale. with a smaller un
| dergraduate enrolment, the total los
caused by war was estimated at l BOT
in the undergraduate body and 40 il
the Faculty.
i Of the undergraduates of Amherst
Brown, Dartmouth, Holy Cross, Tufts
University of Maine. Wesleyan ant
w IllldHlS, - per cent ltll COl4tEt u
enlist in some branch of the militar,
service and 30 per cent more left t
) engage in farming or similar indirec
war activities More than one fourtl
of Trinity s total enrolment enlisted
, one third Of the students at Colby VIII
were physically fit offered themselve
to their country.
The Connecticut Agricultural colleg
at Storrs closed on May u with onl
twenty students left out of an enrol
? ment of 1872; the Massachusetts Ayr
cultural college closed on April l. t
allow 99.S per cent of its enrollmen
S of 470 to 90 into some form of wa
work. The New Hampshire Agricu
tural college released four tifths of il
men. OF the l,040 men enrolled in tn
!. agricultural department of Maine Tn
l. versity, 200 left college to go to
/, farms, and every man of the agricu
If tural department of the University c
J; Vermont volunteered to aid the Co
Il eminent in raising food. In the thre
= agricultural colleges Of Connection
? Massachusetts and New Hampshire, s
f per cent of the students left to go int
+ war work of one kind or another, mos
ly, of course, in farming, where the
'd could be of the most value