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Army University is Largest
in English Speaking
World
OPEN IN FRANCE 6
FOR U. S. SOLDIERS
Former President of Norwich Univer-
sity is at Head of Faculty of 500
Chiefly Drawn from Expeditionary
Forces-Various Lines of Instruction.

NEW YORK, March 10.-The Ameri-
can army university, the largest uni
versity of the English speaking world,
has been opened at Beaune, southwest OF
Paris, it was announced here last night.
Fifteen thousand soldiers have en-
rolled for a three months course. The
faculty of 500 members, chiefly drawn
from the American expeditionary force,
is headed by Col Ira A. Reeves, for
merly president of Norwich university
in Vermont.
The buildings now serving as study
hall and dormitories were used during
the war as an American hospital. A
farm OF 600 acres is used as the main
agricultural college, while former work
shops of the hospital supply quarters
are being utilized by classes in engin-
eering. The university. has opened
branch at Bellevue, near Versailles, for
nearly 1000 students of art and archi-
lecture.
The American army university is one
of the four features of the educational
system introduced for the benefit of the
expeditionary force. The other fea-
lures are: #
Post schools in all organizations for
elementary work, division educational
headquarters in all armies, corps and
divisions for vocational training and
general education of high school grade,
and the detail of officers and soldiers as
students of French and British miver-
sites for post graduate college work.
Post schools have been established in
units of 500 or more men. There are
generally 40 of such schools in each di-
vision, which will make more than 900
in the A. Z. F.
These schools give instruction in the
regular common school subjects. En-
phasis is laid on geography, study of
which is being supervised by Prof. Reg
inald Aldworth DAILY of Harvard Uni
Eersity
In each army division there is a high
school giving both regular and vocation
al courses. Around it is built up the
educational organization of the division.
Special facilities are provided for learn
ing such trades as. carpentry, brick lay
ing, tailoring, etc. When troops are in
devastated regions it is expected that
the training in certain trades, such as
masonry, can be made of direct benefit
to the localities.
When qualified officers and soldiers
are put on "detached leave" to carry
on graduate work at British and French
universities an American military officer
is in command of such detachment
and representative of the army edu-
cational commission Y NJ. c. A. acts
as a sort of American dean. EXPIRES
MacLean of the state university OF
Iowa, represents the commission in Eng
land, where 1000 A. T. F. students are
in attendance at universities
The entire educational system is in
charge of Brig. Gen. Thomas Henry
Reese, who was chairman of the wal
department committee on education anC
special training and organized the stu
dent army training corps in American
colleges.
Approximately $50 American educa
tors have been sent overseas in the las
few months, and with 200 educationa
secretaries previously sent by the y NJ