The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1917-10-18
By C. Fletcher Quillian, A. NJ.

Harvard's depleted fall registration.
His sentiment is no doubt shared
by many other college presidents
all over the country.
The loss Of over half Of the upper
classes at Yale. Princeton and Har-
ward is duplicated in many colleges.
The professional and graduate
schools other than engineering show
even heavier losses. The Harvard
Law School and Graduate School Of
Business Administration register
only 800 and 800 respectively OF
their normal numbers.
On the other hand there is a larg-
or attendance at many military, en-
cheering and medical schools, as
illustrated in an increase OF SO in
Harvard Medical School.
The large number Of Freshmen
entering the colleges Of all sections
shows the willingness Of men under
81 TO be drafted to go TO college in
accordance with President Wilson's
expressed WISH in his letter Of July
Goth to the Secretary Of the Interior.
The often repeated criticism that
college men have little sense Of re-
sponsibility has been given the lie
i'm the facts shown by the present
war. OF the $1,000 men in the Or
flcers Training Camps held this sum-
mer a large percentage was COM
posed of college men. OF the men
al Fort Benjamin Harrison training
to become officers, 500 were from
the colleges. At Williams College
$50 Of the student body was in mil
itary training within two weeks
after war was declared. At one
State University 1850 men out Of
5000 left for service before COM
mencement, at another 1000 out OF
1900 left, and in yet another only
100 men remained out Of $50.
The colleges have also given the
best brains Of the faculty to the use
of the nation. President Garfield OF
Williams heads the new Department
of Fuel Administration. while hun
dreds of professors are engaged in
the work Of various boards which
are conserving our national resOur-
ces.
Much physical equipment Of many
institutions is taken over by Uncle
Sam. Wofford College turned over
its dormitories to 200 Plattsburg
officers pending completion OF the
Spartanburg camp. Harvard has
given to 1900 naval radio students
the exclusive use of six buildings,
including the gymnasium and the
largest dining hall, and is soon to
start another government school -
this time for ensigns. The War De-
partment ordered $50 picked men
from the Officers Training Camps
of the country to report to Cam
bridg TO be instructed by the French
officers whom Harvard brought over
last spring to teach its own students.
This Iron Battalion" went from
Harvard TO pass on to others the
methods Of French warfare learned
at Cambridge. The important
ground school" for aviators at
Princeton has taken possession OF
several buildings and Brockow Ath-
letic Field.
Athletics Of American colleges
have been made subservient to
athletics Of the American army and
navy. Driver. the former star half
back at the University Of Virginia,
is Director Of Sports at Camp Jack
son, South Carolina. Football coach
Bender Of the University Of Tennes-
see is making physically ut the SOL
diers at Greenvile, s. C. Walter
Camp, Jr., Of Yale directs athletics
at Camp Hancock, Ga. Eddie Mahan,
Captain OF Harvard's champion foot
ball team Of 1915. is in charge Of the
sports Of the sailors at Philadelphia.
II was at Princeton that former
coaches gathered last month at the
meeting Of Directors Of Camp and
Cantonment athletics OF the coun-
try. Every athlete who had won
his letter at Columbia has enlisted
in some form Of government service.
Tn Canada and in may colleges OF
the States intercollegiate COMPETE
tion has given way TO inter-class
and inter-department contests.
This allowed the vast amount OF
energy and money formerly devoted
TO the big" games such as attracted
$1,000 spectators last fall TO the Yale
Bowl 10 be directed to many forms
of war activities. II also enables
many more individuals than form
erly 10 develop themselves as ath-
letes, and helps 10 make "the real
contribution 10 the national defence"
which President Wilson says will