The sun., 1918-09-13
WILL BARNARD Be
A WAR SCHOOL TOO?
Fate of Sweet Girl Under
graduates at Columbia
Is Unsettled.
NAY CONTINUE CLASSES
But When Campus Becomes
Camp It May Be Hard to
Keep Academic.


suffers a war change into something
new and strange apologies TO MT.
Shakespeare, please): when by the de-
cree Of the Government New forks
great institution OF learning becomes an
Grmy training camp. what Is TO become
o. the girls UP there?
In the outline of the plans for the
Student Army Training Corps. which
Columbia has been ordered to turn into
material for Pershing, devoting all its
resources to the work, no mention is
made OF the sweet girl undergraduates
but there are lots Of them there--s00 in
Barnard College, for instance. Teachers
College. a part Of Columbia. Is swarmins
with women, and in almost all the ad-
vanced courses offered at the university
are women graduates studying side by
side with men.
Just how many goods there are this
year could not he ascertained yesterday
hut Miss Virginia Gildersleeve, dean OF
Barnard. said that at one time there
vere 1000. Fewer came In this fall. but
still there are a good many. II Column
bias educational system Is to b<
strapped will these women students
nave 10 put On knbhl WIN tho iooS vi
will they be sent home! /
Barnard Nay Contin1e.
Neither, probably. Miss GiIdersleevs
says. So far as she knows Barnard IL
10 be allowed to GO right along. subject
TO Uncle Sans demands on space and
the teaching stan. and the university
courses in sciences. languages and otheI
branches win not be stopped. Most Of
them are necessary - the war. for thi.
IL conflict in which knowledge is pittet
against knowledge. and not only mar
power but the. ability TO harness the
forces Of the earth and the air viii
count in the final reckoning.
II have just been in Washington
where I sat on a committee with a lone
rane. the Committee on War Servics
Training for Women College Students
Dean Gildersieeve said. land I tried Il
fad out as much as I could about wha'
courses are most useful for war pur
poses. I was astonished to find that al
most everything is necessary. Chemis
try--;he colleges can hardly turn on
chemists fast enough to please the Gov
eminent. Metallurgy. geology, geog
raphy-you can hardly mention scienc,
that is not required In the conduct o
war.
Political economy il very important
Questions OF import and export. OF inter
nal labor policies. are constantly to b.
decided. and the War Trade Board ant
the War Labor Policies Board will hav
places for all the trained young womeI
vo can turn out. Skilled clerical work
trs and secretaries are in demand. @
course the modern languages. French
Italian. Spanish. Russian. Japanese wer
~ n IN This time TX hPl
the nations of the Allies are beini
brought in such close contact So edu
estion can't be stopped, you see. Al tn
same time We are prepared for whateye
may happen. and 50 many unexpected
things have come to pass that one can
prophecy"
students Not There Yet.
The big building at broadway AM
1isth street, where Dean Gildersleeve'
Office and most of the Barnard class
rooms are. was quiet and peaceful yes
terday. The men in KHAKI and .. Z
Goth who were streaking around co
Iumbia campus in businesslike fashio
getting the lay OF the new land the
were to conquer hadn't invaded til
naunts of the sweet girl undergraduates
Neither were the girls there. but that
because they were still OF farmerettin
cnd SO OH and hadn't reported for tn
collegiate year
The s 4. T. q. hadn't yet said sea
10 anybody in Barnard. but rs il wa
admitted you never can tell. The Schoc
Of Journalism Is supposed to go RICH
along the same as usual after Octobs
]. but a day or two ago some of Co
John =. Flnley's men went into tn
S. J. building and calmly said: wv
want one floor OF this buildings. A. I
G." And of course they got it. 5
when Dean Gildersleeve said that Bal
nard would probably go on as usua
Subject to demands on space and tea CT
lag STATS" she uttered q wise quail
) fication.
As matter OF fact. long before th
Governments telegram flashed into III
Office OF President Nicholas Murra
Butler various special war courses Ia
been Installed for women. some of theI
Under Mis-: Virginia Newcomb, hea
ct the wonens War Work departmer
at Columbia. some IN connection wit
the regular work. They even stsrte
u caInouhage class. but discovering thu
the Government didn't want wome
csmouHeurs they abandoned it.
special One Week Coarse.
One OF the most important new fef
lures is the intensive. training give
vomen who have been chosen by II
Young Mems and Young Women's Chri
tian Associations to go abroad. IL Ina
20 be very intensive. for II only lasts
week. but Dean Gildersleeve says
/ great deal Is cranmed into il
They are laugh; something Of can
~cocking, canteen work. recreation;
games. The geography and customs
the country TO which they are going /
language, &C." she explained. al
they say that they can really learn
GOOD deal of practical French in a wee
We divide them into two classes, tho
who know something OF the languai
aud tbsoe who know nothing. and VIII,
'ho week is over We give each a usef
text book.
Then We have a class for women
learn 70 be recreation directors. TIL
Is very necessary thing. now more ths
ever, when there Is so much OF that
be done in connection with big nunitiC
factories and other places where mar
women and girls are employed In Go
eminent work In Teachers collel
there is decided war turn now 10 ii
lessons in domestic science and 9th
taings taught there: but Teachers CO
l'ge Is a big institution in Itself,
which do not know so much"
Miss Gilderslceve Is dean OF Barnar
which, like Columbia College, is a c.
lege within the university. She has NJ
what she calls a vague supervlsio,
over the hundreds OF women who con
there TO take postgraduate courses. a,
hose who enter the department Of G