The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-04-13
DOUGHBOY COLLEGE
HAS 5000 PUPILS
Secretary Stokes Gets Reports
on A. E. E. University's
Progress.
OPEN IN BEAUNE, FRANCE
Several Thousand Other Amer.
ican Soldiers Studying in
Famous Schools Abroad.

Doushboy College. q university for
soldiers only; already ,one Of the largest
schools in the world, Is booming along
with 5000 students pursuing its 200
different courses at Beaune. twenty
miles south of Dijon. France. This is
the American Expeditionary Force uni
versity and Il is certainly one OF the
most interesting educational institutions
in the world.
Secretary Stokes Of Yale, chairman OF
the committee which has represented
in this country the army educational
commission, has received detailed re-
ports Of the work Of the A. e. r. Uni
versity thriving on alien. II friendly.
soil. The university is composed Of
these colleges: agriculture, arts. BUSH
ness, education, engineering, industry.
trades. Journalism, law. letters, medical
sciences. music and science.
The preliminary catalogue shows more
than 200 different courses. the largest
number being In agriculture, engineering,
can carry on almost the same work as
he could at a representative American
university. Under economics and social
sciences, for instance. are the following
| courses: fundamental economic theory,
economic history, trusts labor problems,
elementary sociology. social psychology.
social problems. Modern philanthropy,
transportation, delinquency. modern So
cial theories, money and banking. cor
poration finance and modern social bet
terment movements.
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Saturday mornings work Is given over
entirely to the department of citizenship,
for work in civics. general information
and foreign relations The teaching fac
ulty includes over 500 men drawn from
the army and from the experts-several
hundred in number-sent over by the
! Y. N. C. A. for developing tho plans of
the army educational commission.
The organization of the university in
cludes a superintendent Col. Reeves,
formerly president of Norwich Univer-
sity, Vermont: An educational director,
Prof. Erskine OF Columbia University,
chairman Of the army educational COM
mission the directors of the various
schools, the faculty. &C. Each term Is
for three months, the first term being
March, April and May: the second, June,
July and August. Each student carries
as minimum three lectures or recita-
ton hours daily during Ave days of the
week and four and o half hours daily
in study periods Saturday Afternoons
and Sundays are free.
Many in Allied Schools.
In addition TO the university at
Beaune. the Army Educational Commits
sion has arranged for students to attend
British and French universities. A re-
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rolment OF American soldiers on detached
service in British universities as fol-
lows: Oxford 200. Cambridge POS. Lon
don 7a6. Edinburgh 2l5, Glasgow 265,
Sheffield 20, Bristol 81. Birmingham as,
Manchester IS.
In France there are 1000 students at
the Sorbonne in Paris alone. OF these
! 400 are in law, $50 in letters. 79S in
, science and $50 in medicine. The num-
, Der at the Sorbonne Is so great that Il
has been necessary to appoint a special
American reference librarian. namely.
| Capt. A. Law Vogue of the Engineering
Corps, former reference librarian of the
Mechanics Institute In San Francisco.
About 1000 American students are at
the other French universities, including
a large number at Bordeaux, Toulouse
| and Grenoble. At each of these univer-
stiles there Is an American army officer
| in charge and a representative of the
Army Educational Commission as a sort
of dean of students. No student is de-
! tailed to French university unless he
has had at least two years work at an
| American college and agrees to remain
to complete the three months term.
| The officers and professors OF the
French universities have done everything
in their power to facilitate the studies
| of American students. For instance
Nine. Curie at the Sorbonne. who with
| her husband discovered the element OF
radium. has set apart certain hours for
| the reception OF American students ir
the Radium Institute.
| Special emphasis Is being placed or
| agricultural education, an army farm
school having been opened at Allery
April /. 1t is under the supervision OF
President Butterfleld of the Massa.
chusetts Agricultural College. a member
I OF the Army Educational Commission
1t takes care of students who are moi
sufficiently advanced to pursue agricul
| tural courses at the university IL
Beaune. More than 1000 are in at
tendance and about $50 acres OF land
are available for farm demonstration
| work. In addition TO these facilities
| agricultural institutes covering thre,
days are being held at various places.
Correspondence school Also.
Another important development Il
that OF the correspondence college. TIL,
subjects in which students may tax.
correspondence work are as follows
Civics and citizenship. salesmanshiI
and personal development, gasolene ant
automobile. farm manag ement, arithme
tic, geometry. history OF the United
| States shorthand, algebra, trigonom
etry, shop arithmetic, advanced shol
| mathematics, steam boilers, heat anC
steam engines.
In addition to the above opportuni
ties there Is. as already announced,
system of post schools in the army
which has been developed by Franl
Spaulding. superintendent OF public
schools of Cleveland. who. with Prof
Erskine and President Butterield, max,
up the Army Educational Commission
sent over by the Y. NJ. C. A. Thes,
give instruction In common school sub
jects and lead up to divisional higl
schools, where the instruction Is mid
way in grade between that of the pos
schools and of the university.
! General orders No. 80, issued by Gen
Pershing February 10, provides the fol
lowing subjects for divisional higl
schools:
1. Vocational and Industrial: Car
pentry, telephone repair; telegraphy
wire telegraphy, wireless; land sur
veying, road construction. horseshoeing
automobile repairing. cobbling, tailor
ing, bsrbering. cooking, baking, nursing
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