Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-06-06

than Is per cent of the men in a division
may enter this school. They spend five
hours a day in school, and drill only one
hour. The course lasts three months If
mans division is ordered home before he
completes his course, he may apply for a
| transfer to another division in order to COM
plete his studies, if he wishes. These schools
have both vocational and general courses,
| like modern high schools. The vocational
courses include such subjects as carpentry,
| telephone repair, biography surveying, au-
| tomobile mechanics, cooking and tailoring.
The general subjects include such agri-
culture, mechanical drawing, English litera-
ture and modern languages The popularity
of these schools is indicated by the fact that
| the Eighth corps school, including three dlvi-
sons, has 5000 students.
In order to provide specialized instruc-
| ton in various subjects the war department
has organized central institution at Beaune,
which is called the American Army univer-
sty. This is the largest English-speakng
university in the world. 1t had 5000 stu
dents in March and was expected to reach
an enrolment of 100000 1t occupies the
site and building of an enormous hospital,
patients and covers two square miles of
land. The citizens of Beaune very
| friendly to the institution, and have estab-
lished at their own expense a club for the
soldier-students.
The courses of instruction at Beaune are
divided into terms of three months each,
the first of which began in March A stu
dent has the option Of returning with his
organization or remaining to complete his
| term
The university is divided into a group of
colleges. Thus there is a college of agri-
culture which has courses in animal hus-
| bandry, horticulture, agronomy and rural
sociology. This college conducts 600-acre
| farm. The college of arts offers preliminary
instruction at Beaune, and has branch for
advanced students at Bellevue, near YER
sailes. There are also colleges of engineer
| ing, letters science, business, education,
| journalism, medicine and music.
The fourth division of the overseas educa-
tional system is the detail of American Off
GERS and men to French and British univer-
stiles, by special arrangement with the
French and British governments. These
men are given detached leave for three
months, and must agree to remain in college
that length of time They are divided into
detachments, each of which is commanded
by an officer and has a civilian director who
acts dean. Each man receives three dol
lars day for room and board, and each
must pay $50 francs for tuition.
This opportunity is limited to men who
have already had two years of college edu-
cation. About 900 Americans have taken
advantage of it. Of these $4,000 are at
tending the French universities of the Sor-
bonnie Bordeaux, Grenoble and Dion. The
other 1000 are in England at the Univer-
stiles of Oxford, Cambridge, London, Edin-
burgh, Glasgow, Sheffield, Bristol, Birming-
ham and Manchester. These Americans in
foreign colleges are said to be improving
their opportunities. They have organized
athletic teams, published newspapers, and
introduced other features of American col
lege life.
The officials in charge of this educational
work are enthusiastic about the good it has
accomplished: 1t has made tens of thousands
of men contented and busy who would other
wise have been restless and idle. The stu
dents in foreign universities, especially, are
doing more than any other Americans, per-
haps, to cement the friendship among Amer
lea and her allies.
| ! AL of these soldier-students are gaining
a new sense of pride in their own govern
ment. Three months of study in pleasant
surroundings at government expense is some
thing Of compensation for the hard months
in the field.
This educational system in Europe is of
course a temporary thing. but education in
the army is not temporary. In the contrary,
/ it is intended to make the army more and
more a great school, where the man who
gives his time for the security of his country
will be fully compensated by educational OPP
portunites.