Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-05-12
COLLEGES SUFFER
 IN GREAT DEGREE
 FROM WORLD WAR
Buildings, Rivers and Fields are Desolately Lonely,
 Students Fighting.
Correspondence Associated Press)

| Correspondence Associated Press) ] London, April 3O.-The war seems more intensely real at England's uni versity centers than anywhere else in the country. This was not so apparent in the early days of the conflict. The transformation is especially pronounc- ed at Oxford and Cambridge where there is desolating loneliness of the college buildings, of the river and the playing fields.
 Not only the undergraduate has gone from these seats of learning, but also the younger Don. Everyone of military age except the invalid and the crippled, has vanished. Whatever of life there is in the colleges is alien to the place. ] The examination schools at Oxford have been transformed into hospital. Part of the other buildings have been given up to training of cadets for the army. Terms begin and end un- needed. The only students left are students of war; the only arts culti- vated are those of destruction.
 A. c. Benson, the widely known au- thor and master at Cambridge, dis cussing recently the gradual trans formation at the English seats of learning, said: "It was a question of instinct and feeling from the start. The shigh-spirited and adventurous went first, then the sedster sort; then the men of an altogether quieter type; and then those who were naturally averse from the fighting life"
 All the natural population of the ;&;oc o,oJ oo11oroc bavo frono What staffs are left are turning out death dealing weapons. The. staffs of nearly all the various departments at Leeds university are now doing war work of most specialized kind. The coal. gas and fuel industries depart ment is testing explosives produced n Yorkshire, and analyzing coar-tar for toluene and benzine. The engi- neering department, besides other more elaborate duties, is teaching ele. mentary machine work to intending munition workers. The textile indus- tries department, the color chemistry department, the agricultural depart ment, are.engaged by the government to deal with army cloths, with dyes and with foodstuffs. ,. Outlining before parliament the other day the work now being done at the universities, Herbert A. l.. Fish. CT. head of the educational department of the country, said: !.
 "The professor and lecturer, the research assistant, and the research student have suddenly become power Ifuf a3ets; to the nation. Whatever uni tversiW you may choose to visit. yot tfind it to be the scene of delicate 4 ana recondite Investigation, result ing here in a more deadly explosive there is 9 stronger army boot, or again, in some improvement to tht Hast advancing technique of .aeria navigation. {$S N
 Commenting on the effect of thu war upon American seats of learning the Daily Telegraph says: x.
 "Those who know anything of th' colleges and universities of America can we'll imagine what a ferment i' going on within them at the presen time, and with what ervid zeal thei students and professors alike vii ;! throw themselves into the war.
 J "It is not" continues the paper "the American fashion to do anythin. by halves, and some of the Americal universities-nctably, we believe liar
 yard already number their old schol ars who have been fighting and work ing for the allies in the various thea ters of war not by the score, bu
 actually by hundreds.
 "However congress may decide tt raise the new armies, Harvard, Yale i Princeton. Cornell, and all the lead
 ing American universities will vic
 with one another to supply the state
 not only with officers and fightin&
 men, but with the men of science
 who, in this war. are equally indis.
 pensable."
 War department orders disclose 1.
 officers of the army. medical officers