Evening star., 1918-02-17
c. v. j. DOING MUCH
TO AID IN THIS WAR
Students, Graduates and Fac
uIty Occupied in Many
Branches of Service.
ANNUAL REPORT is MADE

A review Of the prominent part being
played in the war by students. graduates
and faculty members of George Washing
ton University is the outstanding feature
OF the annual report of Rear Admiral
Charles Herbert Stockton, U. S. N, re-
tired, president of the university. just
made public.
''The outbreak of the war at once af-
fected the student body, both in the
graduate and undergraduate depart
ments" says the report I'm some cases.
especially in the Medical School. almost
the entire graduating class went at once
into the military service Of the country.
The Law School. being composed largely
of men within the military age. lost heav-
lily from the upper undergraduate classes,
besides the graduating class. there being
q total loss of about 90 per cent. AL
though the enrolment of the present year
does not show on its surface the great loss
due to the war, this arises from the ad-
dition of many eligible persons due to
the great enlargement Of the civil service
Of the government in the Capital city.
Contributing Its Share.
JTeOfSe washington mas
and is still contributing its share from
the student body to the military and
naval services of the country in all
branches and has presented as fine dis
play OF patriotism as other universities
and colleges, Notwithstanding the fact
that the student body does not stand de-
fached from the community as IN other
cnses, and hence is not subject to the
impulses which result thereby in COM
iuuunity of youths"
the report explains that the de-
creased enrolment in Teachers Col
1ege is due primarily to the fact that
the teachers Of the washington schools
who constitute the bulk of the enroll
ment. have been assigned extra duties
pertaining to food conservation, Red
Cross work and the like. This takes
their time and energy after school
Aours.
Thirty-seven of the engineering stu
dents, according to the report, were in
the military service at the end of the
last collegiate year. Up to the time Of
the fling of the report forty-f1ve stu
dents of the Medical School had filed
applications for enlistment in the Army
and four had applied for enlistment in
the Navy.
Contributes to Service.
Our medical faculty." says the re-
port, has contributed generously to
both the reserve and the regular corps
of the Army and Navy, and, while the
Joss of these instructors was keenly
felt at the opening of the school year,
we have fortunately been able to OBJ
tain capable substitutes. SO that our
medical teaching has not been serious
1y interrupted. A number of teachers
arc in active service. doing duty at
walter Reed General Hospital, and thus
are able to continue their teaching at
the university. At the present time
twenty-five members of our faculty are
In active service in this city, in the
United States or abroad.
The SuperintendentS of our medical
school and hospital, who were both re-
tired hospital sergeants, were recalled
for war service and received commits
Eleven undergraduates of the Dental
College have enlisted, says the report
81 another graduating class last year,
comprised OF six men. five took the exam
Reserve Corps and were commissioned as
second heutenants- All Of these men are
now on duty in France Many Of the
older graduates also obtained commits
kions and are now in active military serv-
ice
Eighty-seven Columbia College students,
or III per cent of the enrolment are in
the military service, according to the
report. Thirty are giving their fun
time to the military establishment, and
0fty-seven are giving part of their
time.
Had Received Commissions.
About twenty graduates of the school
of graduate studies had received COM
" missions in the Army or Navy at the
time of the compiling of the report.
services. especially as explosives
chemists.
The maximum registration for the
zls4. the largest in the s history story Of the he
institution The faculty now embraces
552 members.
new law school building resulted in
the raising, through cash. securities
and pledges. of s36.476. but at the out
break of the war. in view of the un-
certainty of the future. solicitation of
funds was discontinued. and the unin-
vested moneys were used for the pur-
chase of liberty bonds.
THE great needs of the university
says Admiral Stockton, in conclusion,
are first of all restoration and in
crease of the endowment This will not
only give a stability to the income of
the university, but will afford oppor-
tunity for an increase in salaries of
the teaching staff, essential to the
retention of efficient teachers and the
perience. As a prerequisite for perma-
nent endowment there should be a
restoration of the former endowment
funds and the payment of the COM
Needs Science Building.
tNThe university also needs a science
building for the overcrowded laboratories
o6 the university now taking needed rooms
m the Medical School building; a library
building. including an auditorium for a bout
1000 persons and the general university
Offices, and q law school building, for
which very considerable funds are now on
hand.
LESS pressing but of Importance is an
enlargement of the university hospital so
clinical
by the Medical School and by the Ameri-
can Medical Association. This will, how
ever, be only a temporary relief in this
direction There should be as a per1na-
nent matter either a new hospital and
school in less expensive situation or a
combination with a hospital already ex-
lsting with the erection of a new medical
school building near by. The increase in
mo population in the city. added to the
growing demand for the use of hospital
facilities. seems to justify the increase OF
hospital space in the District