Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-07-05

What Should the College Man Do?

Thousands Of young men all over the country
inst hollow ar above the ages of the seective draft
are making themselves what is their duty at TINS
time Should they enlist offer for enlistment :
should they stay at their present tasks!
To college students the question is particularly
sharp because American universities and colleges
have been individually emphatic upon patrlouc
duty. Probably every college man in HAWAII has
had from his class or alumni association letter
asking what he is doing for his country. Thus tne
undergraduate feels special stimulus to enlistment
or to some other concrete form OF action
The best Judgment of military and educational
leaders alike is that the undergraduates should con-
finue their college work The Star Bulletin has re-
ceiyed a statement on "War Service by Our Col-
leQes" from the Advisory Commission on National
Defense following conference with university ana
college presidents From this taken the follow
ING points which should answer some OF the main
ouestions now presented with special keenness:
i. That the government should provide or en-
courage military training Of all young men In col
1eQes by retired officers Of the army or national
guard or other persons competent to give military
Instruction, and that the colleges should include
AZ a part of the regular course of study the teach
inc of military science in accordance with the pro
visions of the national defense act.
2. That all colleges and universities should so
modify their curriculums and calendar as to sub
serye most fully the needs Of the nation in the pres
ent crisis especially that they consider dividing the
college year into quarters of twelve weeks each,
that the college course may be best adapted to the
reeds Of food production. liz"
8. That the universities assume as one Of their
highest functions the dissemination of correct IN
formation concerning the principles t''roIUed IN the
,cor and the interpretation of the fundamental
meoning of the great conflict @'.
4. That regular channel of communication be
lreen the federal government and the higher edu-
Sfional institutions of the country be organized
ma that this consist Of the Federal Bureau of Edu.
rsfion and the Federal State Relations Service OF
Ike Department of Agriculture, with the coopera-
ION Of the committee on science and research OF the
Advisory Commission.
In order to protect the college and university
nom an unwise drain Of its younger men and to
insure adequate preparation of these men for ma
fonal service when the necessary age is reached,
the conference formulated the following principles
i. That students pursuing special technical
courses such as medicine, agriculture and engineer
liz. are either rendering or are preparing themselves
y render through the continuation Of their train
.nr. services more valuable and efficient than if
they we're to enroll in military naval service at
once.
q That all young men in college below the age
81 liability to the selectiye draft and those not rec
nmended for special service should continue their
college cork in order that they may be able to rem
DR. more effective service both during the latter pc
rod Of the war and in the trying times that will
follow its close.