Newark post. (Newark, Del.) 1910-1969, 1919-04-23
UNCLE SAM UNDER
: TAKES BIG EDUCA-
TIONAL MOVEMENT
Dean Hayward Designates
Overseas Work AS
"Mansize Job

educational work under the aus
pieces of the Y. M. G. A. wrote to
friends here recently a resume of
his work at Beaune and the pre-
paratory period in Paris. A recent
letter says in part:
"Quite large number of our
group were educators, many of
them high school men who have
been sent to some of the larger
camps to organize high schools;
others were from colleges and uni
versities. Most of these have been
sent to the American E. F. Univer-
sity at Beaune, which is about $50
miles southeast of Paris, and not
very far from the Swiss border.
The university has been founded
and is under the administration of
the military authorities. 1t COM
prises the colleges of agriculture,
science, letters, medicine, law, en-
cheering, journalism, West Point
cadets, correspondence, business,
music, citizenship, fine arts and
education. The students, as we'll as
practically all of the instructors,
come from the army. We hold to
the requirements for four year
high school or it's equivalent for
the entrance, and the work is of
such a grade that credit will be
given in the home colleges and uni
Iversities.
The Educational Commission
consists of DR.. John Erkine of
Columbia; DR.. Kenyon L. Butter
field of the Massachusetts, Agri-
cultural College, and DR.. Frank
Spaulding of Cleveland, who have,
with the approval of Colonel
Reeves, military superintendent of
the university, assigned to me the
dictatorship of the college of agri-
culture, and l find my duties real
mans job.
We have already registered over
5000 men for the university and
expect to open on March II with
500 in our own college. We shall
have in this college Ia buildings at
our disposal, and hope to supple
ment our class room work by a
number of tours through the most
interesting agricultural regions in
France and England. These trips
will be arranged by departments,
and will be made at the close of
the semester in June.
An important part of the work
in this college is the secondary
school of agriculture at Allerey,
about IL miles from here. This
school will open April first, and
the call has gone out for 5000 men
to attend. There are no entrance
requirements, and the work will be
adapted to those who have not
finished high school and who want
Ito get some systematic instruction
in agriculture, both in the class
room and on the farm. A farm of
$50 acres is a part of the material
equipment at the school, and every
student will work two hours a day
at some phase Of farm work. The
courses will be for three months,
two months and one month and by
August first we hope to have had
10000 men in attendance. We are
planning quite an elaborate pro-
gram on the school farm, and Will
probably have an expert French
agriculturist detailed to guide us
in our practical operations to pro-
tect us from making mistakes due
to climatic conditions.
The whole plan for the univer-
sity was decided upon little over
a month ago, and today practically
all the buildings are up and many
of them occupied by departments
ready for work. I feel pardon
able pride when l think of the Wis
ion of our army and educational
authorities in projecting this Ma
poleonic plan for the benefit OF our
soldiers, and of the ability that has
been shown by the army in putting
the plan into operation with so lit
tie of time.
Any account of this great enter
prise, which is also the greatest
| educational experiment ever I'M
) dertaken, would be incomplete
without tribute to Colonel Ira L.
t Reeves, the army superintendent
5 of the university, upon whom has
devolved the execution of the plans
submitted by the educational com.
> mission. 1t is rare to find the mar
, who has been an educator himself
/ and who, in consequence, is in
4 hearty sympathy with educationa
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