Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-06-08
College for Our Soldiers

advanced subjects Of general educa-
ton than can be given In the post
schools. Tho official course Includes
algebra. trigonemetry. mechanical
drawing. agriculture. salesmanship.
economics, American and English lit
erature, advanced French. Italian
Spanish and German, advanced courses
in history. eta In short. the division
educational schools approximate the
home high schools.
But vocational training Is also pro-
vided in them. so far as the material
and equipment within the division
permits. Carpentry. telephone repair.
telegraphy (wire and wireless), land
surveying. road construction. horse
shoeing. automobile repairing. are
taught; and even cobbling. tailoring.
barbering. cooking. baking. nursing
and other subjects as found practicable
or as demanded by the men. Each
commander is requested to make .
complete survey of his organization. In
order to determine the demand for
education and in what subjects, and
on this basis classes are organized.
Courses provide for q minimum OF
five hours study per day for Ave days
in the week, covering a period Of three
months.
There is even authorization for the
organization OF provisional educational
companies, or detachments. each pro-
VII nit o1 n @ ttvQ
head. These units are given one hours
military training per day. in addition
to their educational work. The num-
Der of such students. however. Is linn
tied, and must not exceed Is per cent
Of the command.
And then above these high schools"
is the magic university" established
at Beaune. in the semi-permanent col
lections Of buildings which had been
planned as the great base hospital OF
the A. e. p. in France. Its thousand
brick and concrete buildings are grouped
just outside the town OF Beaune. and
when in full operation It will form
larger city. II occupies a square mile OF
ground. exclusive of the Agricultural
SoiiCGC At hiteIy, uo1Ch hiioHhSSOAS
distant. Four hundred buildings will
be used as classrooms. laboratories and
lecture rooms. The others will serve
as sleeping and living quarters.
In spite Of it's graveled roads, Its
neat and shipshape air, the university
Is not beautiful. 1t Is all new. square
and utterly unesthetic. But no one
These thousand buildings were
planned and hastily built for sad
work of salvage and reparation. for
receiving and nursing the wounded
from the great battles which the
American Army came prepared to
fight and to win. whatever the cost.
At the beginning Of the war many q
BchooI was turned into a hospital.
Now thaA II IL over. this great base
hospital is to be "A school--to be given
over to creation, to preparation.
There had been planned great
"aortiRs' room for wounded. where
arrivals were to be first taken, and
where even pressing surgical opera
tons might be performed. Now this
room receives and sorts books
Thousands Of bookY furnished by the
American Library Association. The
library win soon contain half IA mil
lion volumes.
There was no dining bali--a hospi-
tai has no need for nm immense din
Ing room such m this university will
require. But there wcro hundreds OF
us"IeSS llttrrn, and racks for carry
ing wounded. with these. tables
were improyiscd.
The university has It's own tele-
phone exchange, its own artesinn we'll.
~ own electric light plant and isun-