The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-27

D. C., and joined her husband, who was in charge of Red Cross work in the lit tie country that had been devastated by the Hun At present she is the head of a Red Cross bureau in Paris.
  others will serve as sleeping and living quarters
 In spite of it's graveled roads, it's neat and ship-shape air, the university is not beautiful. It is all new and square and utterly unaesthetic. But no one will dare to criticise it because of that.
 For consider these thousand building were planned and hastily built for a sad work of salvage and reparation; for re- ceiving and nursing the wounded from the great battles which the American army came prepared to fight and to win,- whatever the cost. At the beginning of the war many school was turned into hospital Now that it is over, this great base hospital is to be school, to be given over to creation, to preparation.
 There had been planned a great sort ing room for wounded, where arrivals were to be first taken, and where even pressing surgical operations might be per formed. Now this room receives and sorts books, thousands of books, furnished by the American Library association. The library will soon contain 500,000 volumes. And the ''morgue Of the original plan has become a photographic atelier! DINING TABLES FROM LETTERS
 There was no dining kall; a hospital has no need for an immense dining room such as this university will require. But there were hundreds of useless filters, and racks for carrying wounded. With these tables were improvised.
 The university has it's own telephone exchange, it's own artesian well, it's own electric plant and laundry. It has it's own policing force, troop of cavalry which keeps insiders in and outsiders out. The main buildings are named after the great French, English and American universi- ties-Oxford, Cambridge, Pennsylvania, Harvard. Louvain, Cornell. The squares and wide gravelled avenues are likewise named after home colleges.
 A great athletic field has been laid out. named Carlisle field; and athletic teams are being organized which, 1t is expected, will rival those of Yale and Harvard. The university is divided into If col leges, as follows:
 Any member of the A. F. F., officer or private, may enter the university as student, provided he has the equivalent of a high school education. There is no cost for textbooks, transportation or quar- ters, and the student continues to draw his full pay. Should his organization be ordered home while he is student. he may elect either to return with it or to continue his studies. If his grades are high, he may stay at the university as long as it continues to operate as an A. E. F. institution.
 CIVIL EDUCATIONISTS The authority of the military and civil authorities at the university is sharply defined All the physical side is military the selection of students, the rules of | the institution life, both of work and play; the discipline, etc. Purely military features are, however minimized as to 1 the actual time devoted to them. On the other hand, the educational side is pure l ly civil. At it's head is Dr. John Erskine, | professor of English at Columbia univer- sity, who is educational director of the university, or president of the faculty. President Keyon l.. Butterfield of Massa : chusetts Agricultural college, is director of the department of agriculture; pr. Louis L. Reber, dean of the University of Wisconsin, is director of the engineering college, and pr. F. E. Spaulding, superin- I tendent of schools of Cleveland, O., will act with the university in an advisory pacity The commanding officer is Col, ! Ira L. Reeves, former professor Of mil itary science at Purdue university. and later president of Norwich university. The educational commission comprises various eminent American educators.
 l When fully established and running nor molly, this university will have probably | the largest enrolment of any educational institution in the world.
 | But even Beaune does not mark the apex of the army educational scheme for ! it's soldiers. For the American graduate | of home universities opportunities for | post graduate work have been prepared (which surpass anything which most of ! these men might have hoped for. under normal conditions. Upon demand, select | ed men are sent upon "detached duty ! to the great universities of the old world Oxford, Cambridge, Glasgow, Edinburgh, lLouvain, Bordeaux and the Sorbonne- All 1 expenses are borne by the army. These tseldier-Students receive communication at the rate of g per day, and are reim- bursed by the war department for actual l expenses incurred by them for lodging, not in excess of $1 per day They must agree to remain for a full term, even | if their units are ordered home
 | Associated with this last phase is the Beaux Arts being formed at Bellevue directed by Prof. Lloyd Warren. Higher students of this institution will be passed
 on to the ateliers and conservatories of Paris.
 l Including all these, post schools, df- vision educational centers, Beaune univer-
 srty and post graduate students. scattered
 from the Rhine to the Atlantic base ports,
 it is estimated that within few weeks a quarter of million American soldiers will be educating themselves as part of their duties.
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