Friday, 'November 20, 1942
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(Editor's Note: Is college-as-usual on the way the meantime, students don't know what to do. jn(yton correspondent, for his paper, the Chicago
out? What are the plans of the Army and the Below, however are two articles discussing probable Newg Tfae other .g &n arUde from & recent
Navy for students in the universities of the nation? college programs now being discussed in Washing. '
J , r j : j- . u u.,,,i t t nnt Wacii. issue of the National Week.)
No one seems to know the answer for sure, and in
Universities Dominated .
BY PAUL R. LEACH.
(rriMii (Iwt ClilrnKO Daily New.)
WASHINGTON, Nov. 18.
American colleges and universities
are being drawn Into full war
mobilization on a scale hitherto
undreamed of by either the gov
ernment or the educatora.
In programs now being worked
out for application in the Feb
ruary semester, if not earlier, the
War and Navy departments, Se
lective Service, the War Man
power Commission and the Office
of Education will all but dominate
the educational Institutions.
"Nationalization?"
Government officials and their
faculty advisers who have thus far
discussed the programs under con
templation shrink from the ex
pression of 'nationalization of ed
ucation." And a warning to the universi
ties of the shape of things to
come was contained in memoran
dums of the Manpower Commis
sion two months ago. At that
time the educators were advised
that all able bodied male students
should be prepared for combat or
service of some sort within, the
srmed forces.
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Both men and women, this
memorandum said, should be pro-
pared for useful work, physical
fitness should be stressed, students
should recognize that they could
not remain in classes for any spe
cified time.
The educators coming to Wash
ington to learn their future status
have been told in broad outline
what to expect, but are yet to
learn in detail the necessities they
must meet in order that the armed
services may be virtually doubled,
to reach 9,700,000 by the end of
1943.
Many schools now have special
courses called war classes. If they
fit into the demand for trained en
gineers, physicists, chemists, me
chanics, doctors, surgeons, experts
in electronics and communica
tions, mathematicians, and celes
tial tnavigators, they will be con
tniu'ed, sharpened up and ex
panded, according to the plans
now in the drafting stage. If they
don't meet these needs, there will
be few students remaining in
them.
Many schools now have their
dormitories filled or partly occu
pied by special classes for WAACs
or WAVES as well as servicemen.
More men will be assigned to the
schools after their 12-week basic
army training period and aptitude
test periods have been completed
for specialist training under Army
and Navy direction.
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The combat force expansion
must take in existing facilities for
schooling and housing such as ex
ist at the universities. There will
be little or no further new camp
construction. The specialist shops,
laboratories and equipment which
the colleges have cannot be dupli
cated for additional camps any
how. It is being emphasized that the
colleges will no longer be expected
to devote time to teaching squads
east and west and manual of arms
to cadets. That is taken care of
in the 12-week basic camp
courses. The colleges will be ex
pected to devote themselves inten
sively to specialist training for
both Army and Navy, and little
else.
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Engineer Seniors
Mr. M. M. Boring, representa
tive of General Electric company
of Schenectady, N. Y., will inter
view seniors in the engineering
college today.
Boring states that he will inter-
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Collegiate Revolution Near . . .
BY NATIONAL WEEK
A revolution is about to be worked in wartime college education. This revolution will
concern every college and every college student.
The definite decision is reached that the college-as-usual will end in June, 1943 if not
earlier. After that, the Army and Navy take over. Kducation thereafter will become wartime
education and will bear little resemblance to peacetime education.
Almost all men of college age are to be taken into the Army or Navy. The future of col
lege education stems from that point.
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As plans now are shaping up,
the men who will go to college
after this school year will be men
chosen by the Army and Navy,
The official feeling now is that
colleges have become something
of a haven from military service
for large numbers of youths. Often
these young men are from the
upper-income classes the na
tion. All of that is to be changed.
Men selected to go to college are
to be men furloughed from active
military service. They apparently
are to be selected on the basis of
a military estimate of aptitude.
The men will draw base pay.
Education itself is to be a far
cry from the present, on the basis
of current plans.
The greatest need is for doc
tors. It is probable that medical
schools will be crammed with
students. The intent is to speed
up medical education, with a prob
able end to premedical training
and a telescoping of courses. The
Army and Navy apparently can
not take from seven to nine years
to train the needed doctors.
Engineers Needed.
Need for engineers also is press
ing. Here again, what the mili
tary services consider a necessary
education for military engineering
is far different from what col
leges have considered necessary.
In fact, the Army is reported to
believe that, in one year of inten
sive college study, a man can ob
tain the basic knowledge needed
by an officer In the Army En
gineers. The need for chemists and other
technicians is not so great. In
fact, one school of thought favors
the training of young women as
chemists, thereby releasing young
men for training required by the
field services.
All of this means that college
view any seniors graduating as
mechanical or electrical engineers,
or having majors in physics and
mathematics. He urges members
of ROTC and the Enlisted Reserve
corps who fall within this classi
fication to be interviewed,' since
his firm will keep records of these
men and may be able to give them
jobs after the war is over.
PICTURES
education as it has been known is
on the way out, for male students
at least. The social life, the fra
ternities, the emphasis upon inter
collegiate athletics apparently arc
to be sacrificed to war after this
college year. There probably would
be an end to granting of degrees
for the war period.
That leaves two big questions.
One is, what now will become of
the enlisted reserves of the Army
and Navy? The second is, what
now is likely to become of many
colleges and of many college
courses ?
250,000 Students.
About 250,000 students are in
the enlisted reserves of the Army
and Navy. Henry L. Stimson, Sec
retary of War, already has an
nounced that the Army's intent is
to call into active service during
this school year most, if not all,
of the Army's enlisted reserves.
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change in its policy of permitting
students to go along with their
Tegular courses. A change in pol
icy is due, however.
The official Army view is that
military training of an ROTC type
is of very little value. The men
it sends to' school will go to school
briefly and intensively returning
to service, probably as officers.
A basis for dealing with the
colleges is still a matter of argu
ment and study.
At present about 500,000 men
are in school, either in enlisted
reserves or in specialized courses
to which they have been assigned
by the services. The men in the
enlisted reserves are paying their
own way and to all Intents and
purposes are ordinary college stu
dents. The others are in the serv
ice. Planning calls for all male
students after this year to b
members of the armed forces.
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