The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1919-06-12

January am army educational commits.
sion, Y NJ. C. A. consisting of DR..
John Er4kino, Columbia University,
Dr. X. c. Burterdeld, president state
College, Massachusetts, and Dr. Frank
Spauldiug. superintendent city schools,
Cleveland, Ohio, were appointed and
at once went TO work upon this new
educational program. This commits
sion acted as an advisory board with
army headquarters. The chief duty
Of the commission was to arrange
courses of study, prepare syllabi, Sc
cure materials and teachers for the
schools and the colleges of the uniyer-
/ sity Early in February, 1919, the
commission, in conjunction with the
representatives OF the army, met in
/ Beaune, France. At this meeting 1t
was decided to establish the Ameri-
can Army University upon the Amer
/ lean Hospital grounds in the north
/ east edge of the city. Qn addition
to the 800 or 400 buildings. mostly Of
brick or concrete). The location is ex-
|
and beauty of scenery To the north
and east the land is level, to the west
there are hills and ridges. while to
| the south the Alps mountains are
easily visible any clear day.
Work began at once upon the
grounds of the new university Dur
I ing the months of March and April
the university has been in continuous
session and many Improvements have
been made. In addition 10 the 300 or
/ 400 buildings. mostly OF brick or con-
crete, already on he grounds, 200 or
/ 800 buildings have been erected. They
are all one-story and are about 80 to
40 by 100 10 $50 feet. Over two hun.
I dred carloads of apparatus and sup
/ plies have been received for labora-
tories and shops. 10000 volumes OF
books have been shipped in for the Ii.
brary. The university stands on a
campus of about 500 acres. over the
grounds run newly made roads OF
streets, mostly ri grarei, well com
pact by stone rri;a-E. The streets as
la rule are na1sad after weiiknown in
stitutions-tht central avenue is
called University Road, while the 9th
er streets bear such names as West
Point, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Ok
ford, Ottawa, Louraine. Sidney. etc.
| There are now thirteen colleges
we'll equipped and in operation. These
are as follows: /. Agriculture. with
an agricultural school of 5000 workins
on a 400 acre farm few miles away
at Allerey; 2, Art (fine and applied)
with a branch school at Bellevue neal
Versailles. few miles out from Paris
At this branch there are over 100(
students working all the time; 8, Bust
ness; 4, Correspondence; 5, Dentistry
6, Education; Z, Engineering s, Jour
nalism; 8, Law; 10, Letters; IL, Medi
cine; -, Music: 1S, Science. Eacl
! college is under director who Is heaC
of the faculty for his college The
colleges all have faculties of special
lists.
The faculty of the university con
sisting of 500 was selected as stated
above. largely from the technica
trained men in the army. A number
however, came fram the leading col
leges and universities of America. |
has been my privilege to meet mem
bers of the faculty from ID such land
grant institutions as Cornell Univer
sity, Ohio State University, Purdu
University, Ames, Iowa, Massachu
sets State, Colorado State, Pennsyl
vania, South Carolina, and West VII
ginia: (2) state universities as Cali
fornia, Illinois, Missouri, Michigan
Virginia and Wisconsin, (3), othe
universities as Columbia, Harvard
Princeton, John Hopkins. Leland Stan
lord Jr.. University of Chicago an
Yale. 1t is fact that the best Amer
lean colleges and universities gladl
released members OF their facultie
when the men were invited to becom
members of the faculty of the Amer
can Army University.
In addition to the above the Amer
can University has been able TO 81
cnre man from other than the tsacf
ing profession: a number of men VIII
are leaders in art, business, law, med
cine and music. A careful survey i
the A. E. F. revealed the fact tina
there were 10000 men. mostly officers
who had teaching or educational Q,
= perience before the war. From tn