The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-12-08
All Are Planning to Resume
Academic Life without De-
lay by Short Terms.
QUESTION OF FINANCES
Fewer Students Means Smaller
Revenue for Remainder
of Year at Least.

universities and colleges throughout
the country will change back into
mutt and resume their pursuit Of Jobs,
money or erudition.
While students are laying aside their
khaki hundreds of officers detailed by
the War Department TO instruct them
will be moving out of fraternity houses
and clubs where they have been quar-
Tered Professors and instructors will
be gathering together the remnants OF
shattered academic courses prepare
tory to resuming the curriculum which
prevailed before bayonet exercises su-
perseded psychology. At the same
time university treasurers and boards
Of trustees will be busy over the books
of the institutions to determine what
has happened to finances as the re-
suit Of the Communicating of the coll
leges Of the nation.
In practically every college in the
Fast 1t is the expressed determination
Of the faculty to make up lost time
in the remainder of the college year
so that students will find themselves
next June or July just as near their
degrees as II they had never spent two
months in the army. Subjects which
lave been crowded from the curricu-
um by drill hours or by topics pre-.
scrbed by the committee on education
and special training of the War De-
partment will now be studied inten-
siYely and for longer hours than Is
usual.
Estimates concerning the number of
present members of the 8. A. T. C..
who will remain in the colleges when
they are put on q peace basis range
from 40 to so per cent. In some col
leges there are what is known as ''vo-
oational section" men. These men
were picked out at the various camps
to which they had been drafted and
we're sent to the institutions for train
ing IN various war trades such as
Photography, radio operating, etc
Most OF these will return Immediately
to their former civilian positions. The
other section of the corps consisted OF
boys OF is or more who would probably
have attended college whether this
country had been at war or not. These
will. for the most part, remain. At
tendance at college this year will be
below the average of former years. &C.
COrunB 10 present lnulCatlOTS.
In Dark on Finances.
Financially the colleges are very
much In the dark. The Government in
cancelling its S. A. T. c. contracts.
promised equitable financial adjust
ment," but just what this means Is not
known even to the professors OF
mathematics of the various institu
tons. So far, heads of colleges agree,
the Government has been entirely just
and even generous concerning money
matters. Tuition and other expenses
OF the students have been paid by the
Government and in addition each stu
dent has received the regular pay Of q
private. Upon their discharge from the
training corps the students who re-
main will, OF course. pay tuition in the
ordinary manner. If few students re-
main and the Government does not
provide adequately colleges may flnd
themselves in straitened circumstances.
The war will leave its permanent
trace on many colleges not only
through bronze tablets containing
names OF fallen students. but also IN
the curriculum itself. Indications now
point 10 the establishment OF many re-
serve officers training camps in the
universitics. For instance, OF the four
institutions within the city. Columbia.
New York and Fordham universities
and the City College, too. Columbia and
New York University have already
notified the War Department that they
desire reserve officers training corps
New York University has gone fur
Their, for 1t has made three hours of
military drill each week requisite for
graduation from its school of arts and
pure science and from the school Of
applied science. The only exceptions
permitted will be because Of physical
disability.
Fordham and the City College still
der consideration.
Generalization Of the Students Army
Training Corps at Columbia began
Saturday, when one of the ten compa
MES OF students was disbanded. One
each day will DO mustered out until
December l6. when It is expected that
all boys will be civilians again. The
organization at Columbia consisted OF
2,2ls mon, including a navy unit of 370
men The War Department has ordered
complete Generalization by December
Fl.
Major Herbert c. Earnshaw, COM
mandant OF the corps, who has seen
service in France under Gen. Pershing,
believes that half the members Of tho
b. A. 7. c, will leave college when
mustered out He bases his opinion on
the fact that many boys came to CO.
Iumoia because they saw an opportun-
Ivy TO secure military training and in
struotion while being paid Members
OF the faculty were inclined 70 believe
more than half will remain, but no
one In authority would venture an es-
innate.
Columbia College at the present time
mas approximately 400 students who,
by reason Of physical defects. lack Of
years. dependency or other causes, dSd
nov enter the s. A. T. c. 1t is upon
this skeleton framework that the aca-
ueinlc body OF the past will be built.
although Columbia College may show
gain OF several hundred students
over the figures OF last year II half
the 5. a. 7. c. boys remain. the uni
Nersity as a whole has suffered.
In the winter session OF 1916 there
were l4S4S students In the various
colleges and schools OF the university.
last year there were 10,s42, and this
year. including the 2.200 s. A. r. C.
men, 1876. The law school has
aropled from 100 last year to Is, Jour