Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1918-09-10
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virtually taken over the universities
and colleges of the country. any boy
Of Is, who can pass the entrance re-
quirements. can 80 to any of the col
leges, large or small, in the east or
west, and get instruction and subsis-
tcnce at the expense of the govern
ment.
How long he will be permitted to
stay in his course before being sum-
moned to active service depends upon
two things: his record in scholarship
and the military demands Of the forth
coming year.
But the war department has just
agreed to enter into contracts with up
wards Of 400 universities and colleges.
beginning on October /, for the pay
ment of tuition and board for all boys
OF Is who will have been registered or
enrolled on September II next under
the terms Of the new manpower law.
Inasmuch as most colleges depend up
on tuition fees to pay their professors
and instructors, the government is in
n sense supporting the educational in
stitutions during the period of war
when the calls Of the army and navy
would otherwise have disrupted the
private colleges and uncndowed
schools of the country.
1t has been intended at first TO enter
into contracts with the colleges only
after the colleges become available,
but the new plan just approved by
General March, chief Of stiff, Of the
United States army. Is to begin the
operation of the scheme on Octoberl,
so that no time may be lost by the STU
dents or the colleges in giving the
maximum amount of instruction be-
f.,r tt,ah nrn n
ors.
The system Of operation. therefore,
will be about like this:
A boy who is not yet IS enters col
lege in the usual way by certificate
from his preparatory school or en-
trance examinations, and IL he becomes
Is years Of age during the college year
he will register under the terms Of the
new law providing registration days,
and will he promptly inductcd into the
military service by the military COM
mander stationed at the university or
college where the boy has begun his
course.
A boy who Is already Is years Of age
will register on September IL and Will
present himself in the usual way for
entrance to the college or university Of
his preference. He will be inducted in
ton at the same time that he passes
the entrance examination or meets the
requirements of the college. From
that moment on he Is no longer In the
Jurisdiction Of the local or district
boards of the city in which he resides,
but Is q member Of the United States
army, subject to the orders OF the mill
tary commander stationed in the dis
trict where the school or college is 10
Gated.
The college year will be divided into
quarters. There will undoubtedly be
examinations at the end Of each quar-
ter. The question of whether boy
shall be continued in college as posi-
BILE material for officers training
camps later on or transferred TO Il
non commissioned officers school or
ordered to report to a division Of the
draft army for service, beginning as
private depends roon the opinion, not
merely of the military commander,
but the college authorities, who Will
cooperate in passing upon the status
Of each individual.
But inasmuch as the government Is
bearing the cost Of the instruction, the
war departments special committee
army officers and educators, who know
exactly what are the needs and require
ments of the army for commissioner
and non- commissioned officers, will
have a great deal to say about the
curriculum and how much of II shall
be military, technical or scientific
though 1t will have to depend upon
the opinion Of the college authorities
and the result of examinations to de-
termine the special fitness Of each stu
dent for the different branches Of the
service into which the young officers
can later be taken.
Unfortunately the navy will have n
part in the plans so that a process OF
selection can be introduced which
will enable the navy to take men who
are trained in special courses and
give them naval instruction later on to
fit them for commissions.
By dividing the year into quarters 1t
will be possible to enter new students
four times year. Thus boys or IL VINO
have had a high school education but
who have never prepared for college
will have an opportunity, IL they show
aptitude for further education, to be
selected from among their fellows and
sent to the technical school or colleges.
Merit will be the test Of all, all along
the line.
II boy can pass the examinations
set before him he may concetyably
have spent six months private In the
army and be sent as result OF an ex-
animation to enter Yale. Harvard or
Princeton, or any Of the numerous
colleges with which the government
will have contracted for student in
struction.
Thus far contracts are entered into
only for the year ending June 80. 1919
but as the scheme works out during
the next few months and provisions
must be made to take care Of the boys
who will be ready to enter college In
the autumn Of 1919. 1t Is probable that
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