Trench and camp. ([Admiral, Md.) 1917-1919, 1919-05-29
5000 Yanks Are Studying
In Army University Abroad

There is one thing in France OF
which no adequate idea can be given
and the most that anybody can do is
TO speak with enthusiasm about it,"
said Secretary of War Baker upon
ms recent return from abroad. This
IS the American Evolutionary Force
University. There never has been
anything like this in the world.
At Beaume, France, they have set
mp a university. The buildings were
Originally put up for Base Hospital
and the war came to an end before
they had been occupied. The Univer-
sity was, therefore, established at this
place. There are over nine thousand
students there, and there are eleven
departments in the University-they
nave school of agriculture, a divin-
ity school, a school Of law, a school
or medicine, q college of arts, q col
lege of sciences, a school Of dentistry.
/ cannot enumerate the others, but
practically any subject that a man
wants to know can be taken up at
the University. They have gotten
the teachers in part from the teachers
which the Y. M. C. A. brought over
when 1t planned to do work along
this line; but for the most part the
teachers are college professors or col
lege graduates who were in the ranks
themselves as soldiers, and who have
volunteered as teachers; and as you
go through the University you find,
for instance, a private on the plat
form lecturing on integral calculus
and there will be seated down in the
class room major, q couple of cap
tains, q lieutenant or two, sergeants
and cofporals; but the man who
knows is the private, he is the pro-
fesS0r, and the military hierarchy is
tual hierarchy. Perhaps in the next
department Of the university, how
ever, a major will be the lecturer,
and SO on. sometimes an officer, some
times a non-commissioned officer, and
often private.
About nine thousand men are now
taking courses at the University. And
the courses, by the way, are wonder
fully complete. In the Department
of Agriculture, for instance, they
have division Of soils, division
OF vegetable gardening, division OF
economics Of farm management, a
division Of marketing, division OF
crops, q division Of animal pests
practically the whole field Of agricul-
tural education, SO far as / know the
whole field, 10 covered in the School
or Agriculture.
I'm addition to the University,
some three thousand Of our men are
matriculated in colleges In England
and France. They are actually in
Cambridge, Oxford, the University of
London, University of Manchester,
Trinity College, of the University of
Dublin, and in the SorbOnne and 9TH
er French universities, so that three
thousand of our men are in foreign
universities and are taking courses
there.
''In addition to this, they have at
Beaume, as part of the University,
what they call the normal college
and to this school selected men are
sent from the various divisions in
France. These men take a course in
pedagogy. They go back to their d.
visions after three or four weeks of
this, and set up schools to teach the
men in the elementary branches.
''Of course, all the men in the Uni
versity agree to stay until the COM
pletion of the course for which they
have matriculated, which is three or
four months, think.
"The idea of all of this is that no