Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-11-13
TAYLOR, TELLS TEL
OF WAR WORK
WITH |! Y. M. G. A.
DIR. Smith Also Describes
Work Of S. o. S. at Uni
versity Convocation.

+, Those Of us who were overseas are
mighty glad to get back, back to these
vigorous prairtes, to this university,
which we love to serve, and we have
come with q b~roadened experience,
which has increased u devotion to
to everything American" declared
John Adams Taylor Of the university
English department at the close of q
descriptive narrative Of some of his
war experiences given at university
c~onvocation exercises this morning.
! Mr.. Taylor and DR.. Frederick d.
Smith of the university Greek depart
ment, two members of the faculty who
saw service abroad, spoke to an audi
ence larger than any that has come
out for c~onvocation since the opening
of school in the fall. Dean Vernon p.
Squires presided. ri
ton OF educational classes among the
army men. in France, which ne as q
Y. M. G. A. worker, took an active
part in. The classes proved so popu-
lar and were taken hold Of by the men
in such an enthusiastic manner that
they outgrew the YIN. c. A, and in
the spring of 1s19-the work was
started in the fall Of 191s-were TAX
en- over by the war department as q
PoAI VI LAo AO6OAoA NY wv Ne "A
ruling was made that every camp con-
tanning 500 men must have q school.
Shortly, after the signing of the
arrnistice, there spread over all OF
France. ravaging every camp in the
country. one Of the most serious cpl
denies Of the war-'Homitis,'" said
Mr.. Taylor. 1.-THE educational work.
which took the minds of the men to
some extent Off their personal griev-
ances, helped immensely in combat
ing this epidemic"
Educational Work.
Speaking of the A. E. F. university
in France, Mr.. Taylor said, ut was
probably the greatest university IN the
world. It contained nine different col
leges, had 5000 men enrolled as stu
bers, 375 buildings, Al different de-
partments, and 800 separate courses
But, with the American army, nothing
is impossible"
Pays Tribute to "Y."
GAS a representative of the regular
army, I want to pay a tribute to the
soldiers Of the Y. M. c. A., M OF
whom is Mr. Taylor" said DR.. Fred.
erick Smith in opening his address
DR.. Smith said that an army mar
necessarily had many experiences
many unpleasant ones which he wish
ed to relegate to the back of his mind
many pleasant ones, which ne wished
to remember. The Y. M. C. A. may b.
thanked for the majority Of the pleas
ant ones.
DIR. Smith described briefly the worl
of the army corps known as the IS
o. S." which many regular army mer
call the corps of "stevedores, orderlie:
and shavetails." 1.-THE S. o. S. repre-
sents the business end of the war, ant
the members of the corps comprised
a. vast number Of specially trained
men, who could do their bit better il
this way than they could in an!
other"
"The Committee on French Homes,
a committee of Americans who place.
cultured, typical and Representative
American youths in French homes o
the better class, in order to get then
to know the French people, and tn
French people to do likewise, as a par
of the achieving of the ideal Franco
American relationship" was touche,
upon by DR.. Smith. He said it was
work Of which little was general:
known.
In closing he declared that to speal
of France al 1.-THE soldier Of an ideal
was to truly picture the French spirit
the spirit Of the country.