The sun., 1918-09-26
TWO UNIVERSITIES
BEGIN WAR WORK
New York and Columbia Prac-
tically Drop Purely AGA
demic Courses.
PLAN SUPPLY OF OFFICERS
Students Who Prove Fitness
Will Be Sent to Regular
Camps.


Columbia University and New York
University opened yesterday in their new
role OF providers for Uncle Sans army.
for In both colleges the usual classical
curriculum has given way to the needs
OF war and a majority of the students
OF both institutions have enrolled in the
Students Army Training Cops. Tho
courses OF past years will be pursued
to some extent. but those who continue
In them will DO girls or men who for
some reason are exempt from the army.
| Tho studies OF those in the corps will
be limited TO such academic subjects as
are OF service to an officer IN the army.
| for out Of tho universities this year will
be graduated men who seem best fitted
to lead in battle, and there Is a certain
grimness about the curriculum of the
corps that shows the great divide sep
larating the university OF this year from
that OF last
| Up at Columbia yesterday the thou
sands Of students who have enrolled
| were being measured for their uniforms,
Having their finger prints taken and
learning the FIRST rules of military dis
cipline. On the campus were men In
olive drab using tape measures In what
| seemed a mysterious way to civilian,
and occasionally officers wandered
through the walks. which will soon be
filled with privates under their command.
As soon as a student enrolls in the
corps he becomes a part OF the army, and
II it is decided that he Is not fitted to
become an officer he will reach can
Torment as private much sooner than
II he had waited for his draft board to
act.
Greeting TO Gen. PershinG.
The same scenes were taking place at
New York University. and from there
Chancellor Elmer j.. Brown sent greet
ing to Gen. Pershlng and the American
Army in France.
THE greater part OF our students here
will be soldiers under military ORDERS"
said Chancellor Brown in his opening
address. our campus is already an en-
campment OF the National Army. Three
months ago l spoke against an undue
softness in our academic life. That soft
ness has passed away more completely
than any OF us at that time could have
foreseen. Even those OF our number
who for adequate reasons will not be
l soldiers during this present term will be
working under conditions not far differ
1 ent from those that obtain in the mill
tary organization.
THE spirit OF the college man IS no
new thing In this war. That spirit has
been in fact one of the outstanding
characteristics OF the struggle. What
have our American colleges not done in
the few months that this country has
{ had a part In the war. / do not know OF
o one OF them that has not made a record
. to stir the blood and kindle the spirit OF
= emulation"
The opening exercises at Columbia
, were held in st. Pauls Chapel for the
/. first time since the college moved to
: Morningslde Heights, as the gymnasium
-. was given over 10 the physical examna-
a lions Of applicants for admission TO the
a corps.
5 DR.. Butler Absent With Cold.
q DR.. Nicholas NJ Butler. president OF
. the university. was Ill with n cold, sc
: Dean Woodbridge made the opening ad-
dress. Dean Harlan r. Stone spoke o.
q the danger OF restraint on the intellec-
a tual freedom OF the teacher and said
= that tho German university influence
had been destroyed by the entry OF Ger.
2 many's professors into the war as active
a propagandists. The same conditions had
: brought about stoppage OF progress IN
| medical science in Germany. said DR.
Frederick FINLEY in speaking at the Col
lege of Physicians and surgeons. and h,
/ predicted that for years to come America
, will be the medical centre OF the world
The courses OF tho Students Army
a Training Corps are divided into severa
: groups for men in the infantry, artillery
l. communication service, engineering, med
q iCal and other services and men will bt
trained along lines for which their pre-
3 vious work has particularly fitted them
II They are also divided into three group:
n according to age and the time they viii
: probably remain in the universities be
d fore being indicted into service. Men Of
20 years will probably remain in schoo
II three months. those of 10 will stay 81,
o months. while at the end of nine months
:, il is expected that the men now Is vii
& also find their way into the army camps
q The college work Is not so much foI
= the training OF men in active military
r science. II was said, as to find out wha
qualifications these young men have a!
IS leaders OF men. as the Second Lieu
n tenants OF the new armies. They will
of course pick up considerable knowl
edge Of military subjects and of othe
studies in the curriculum of any college
which will be useful to them In th'
~ army. but the chief aim of the army Il
to find out whether they will make gooC
officers.
= II they prove NJ they will be sent n
time to an officers training camp or Il
some school OF vocational training wher,
they may be prepared for skilled work IL
u the army. and II they are Mt PHYSICAL!
= but UNIT in other ways to lead men the!
will be sent to camp as privates.
Those who are exempt for physical q
lie other reasons to be in the army will ~
ia permitted to remain at their schola st Il
work, so that although the universitie
" from October !. the day they come unde
d army control. will be mainly military
Al there will yet be a small number o
II purely academic students.
&
NEW CHECK ON BUILDTNG