Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1919-02-19
ARMY EDUCATIONAL
WORK IN FRANCE IS
PROGRESSING FINE
Great Opportunity Offered 70 Men In
The service To Acquire Yoratioa.
al Training Before Returning

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III Training Before Returning
with tie arrival 81 General Rees
from washington on detail from the
War ciepar ment 10 take charge Of the
army educational work progress hiss
been rapid along the lines laid down
III the program submitted By the Y n
III A. Army Educational commission.
Text books required 70 satisfy the de-
naands OF the men for instruc ion are
coming overseas rapidly, according TO
i statement issued today BIZ Professor
John Erskine. Of Columbia university
chairman Of the 'Y' commission; post
schools are starting up at The rate Of
forty to division and groups Of offi
GERS and men are being absorbed hy
French and British universities to the
limit of their capacity
Now the educational plan seems
more than sure, said Dr. Erskine,
and the best evidence OF the good Will
Of the army IS ID the promise Of Gen
eraI Fiske to change the daily pro-
CRANE of FIVE hours of drill so that
those who desire to avail themselves
Of the educational opportunities Of
fered NAV elect two hours Of drill and
the rest Of the day In classes We are
assured that an order giving this op-
tion Will be put on as soon as the
classes are IN operation everywhere.
THE men Who are academically
qualified for admission to universities
70 on detached service. not on leave,
BY this arrangement they will have
the benefit Of full pay and osher ad-
vantages and at the same time the
army will have them under its discip-
line
AL each university there will be 9
military commander from our army
who in prac ically every case will be
himself an educator There Will also
be an officer from the commissary de-
partment and professor from the
Y MI. G.. Al. Army Educational commits
sion 10 act as dean Of the American
students and as exchange lecturer
Courses In agriculture, DR. Erskine
j .ated are being operated in increas-
ing numbers under the direction 81
officers detailed from the army to
serve Dr.. Kenyon Il. Butterdeld, pres
iient of the Massachusetts Agricul-
tural college
The band school at Chaumont IS be
ing expanded to conservatory for
students of music AT the same time
preparations are being made to de-
velop a large art school In Paris, n
add ion to the opening Of art classes
throughout the army
Our greatest needs now, DIR Erskine
added, are for reinforcements to our
stan of experts and an even greater
supply of text books These needs
are emphasized IN the following exs
#cerpt from a cable message sent bs
General Pershing to the Adiutant Gen.
eral III washington
Educational work divided into
three sections First, opening d
schools for instruction IN general ed
ucational subjecss; second. vocational
schools organized III training cenfers
in armies, corps and divisions for vo-
cational instruction; third. higher
education BY detail Of officers and sol.
1iers Ia educational institutions Of olE
Allies.
Army Education Commission y
III. G. Al will function as advisory
board 1t will be charged with the de
yelopment Of instruction. prepara ration
OF course and course materials ant
providing expert education advisors
and assistants for army, corps. divis
ions. IS. %. S. and post schools.
Commission still needs about on.
hundred additional experts from e S
for function al their headquarters ant
work in the field. Request every as
Ssistance be given to expedite pass
ports Of these educational men. Rec
onTnend co operation Committee oI
Education and Special Training ii aid
ing home representatives Of commits
sion to secure personnel Request as
sistance be given III expediting ship
sment of books m accordance with ap
proved list amounting 60 $4,000, 900 fol
4 n. G. a. and $1,000 900 for A 4. a.
The textbooks are being taken Of
our hands by the army and distributed
free to the soldiers. AT the same time
we are preparing numerous syllab
FOR the courses. and al last IL seem,
likely that we shall have printing
press under control here In Paris
where the syIlabi can be prepared il
greater number and more quickly
While waiting for books the mus
get out guides for study In practically
ali subjects and We now have at Paris
headquarters 8 group of men capable
or making these syllabi
1t occurs to me that as these syi
Iabi viii be the natural basis Tor anJ
credit given later for our instruction
be colleges ali home ought to have this
material for them 1 am asking thai
the II. Nj G. A. at home publish ths
iirst group of ten syIlabi and othel
groups III successive bulletins 70 dis
tribute them to the colleges and uni
versities- can think OF no better
way Of keeping the people At home &C.